Product Details
- * Pub. Date: February 2009
- * Weight : 0.3500
- * Dimensions : 0.6" H x 6.8" L x 4.9" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 872865002
- * Publisher : City Lights Books
- * Book Theme : Discrimination & Racism
- * Book Type : Trade Paperback
Description
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone can make it if they work hard, but also as an example of how institutional barriers against people of color ha
