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A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis
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Overview
America's racial fault lines run uninterrupted from the days of slavery to those of lynchings, separate water fountains, and the contemporary Jim Crow of voter suppression, gerrymandered voting districts, and the attempt to nullify the presidency of America's first Black chief executive. In this book Cornell Belcher presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged these racial fault lines continue to be. Cornell has surveyed battleground voters from 2008 through the 2016 primary season, tracking racial aversion and its impact over the course of the Obama presidency. Given the heightened racial aversion as a consequence of the first non-white male living in the White House, the rise of Trump was a predictable backlash. The election of the nation's first Black president does not mean that we live in a post-racial society; it means that we are now at a critical historical tipping point demographically and culturally in America-and this tipping point is indeed the wolf at the door for many anxious white Americans. The panicked response of the waning white majority to what they perceive as the catastrophe of a Black president can be heard in every cry to "take back our country." This panic has resulted in the elevation of an overt and unapologetic racist as the nominee of one of America's major political parties. Let's be clear, as Belcher points out: there isn't any going back. America's changing population and the continued globalization of our marketplaces won't allow it. In order to compete and win the future, America must let go of the historic tribal pecking order and a system gamed to favor the old ruling white elite. To paraphrase DuBois, "The problem of the twenty-first century remains the color line."
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781621343608 |
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Publisher: | Water Street Press |
Publication date: | 11/01/2016 |
Pages: | 218 |
Sales rank: | 504,994 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword g
Authors Note k
Introduction: A Catastrophic Moment 1
A Brief' History of Power Tools 5
January 20, 2009 8
Color in Context 13
The (Dis)Loyal Opposition 13
The (Original) Tea Party 16
A Tea Partier by Any Other Name 23
The (Recent) History of Whites' Racial Attitudes 27
Color by Numbers 34
The Southern Strategy 43
The Roots of the Southern Strategy 48
The Southern Strategy Solidifies 52
The Death of the Southern Strategy 60
The Othering of Barack Obama 63
What is "Race"? 63
Tribes 69
A Long History, Not Over Yet 87
What is Racism? 87
Redlining, and All That Follows 91
When Racism Becomes Treason 117
Conclusion 175
Acknowledgments 185
About the Author 187
Notes 189