Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

by Thomas J. Sugrue

Book Overview

The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's America

Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137307
• ISBN13: 9780691137308
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"