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Race against time : the politics of a darkening America, Keith Boykin

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"As the upheaval of 2020 has made clear, America has utterly failed to atone for its original sin of racism. As America turns blacker and browner, the combination of fearful whites, angry and newly empowered blacks, and an inexcusable absence of leadership from Washington has created ideal conditions for conflict. There is a way out of our burning race crisis -- but in order to prepare for the future, we first need to learn the lessons of the new age of reckoning. The current racial reckoning is the culmination of two decades of political miscalculations and ongoing organizing. In Race Against Time, national political commentator Keith Boykin offers a nuanced, in-depth account of political maneuverings from Washington to the streets, showing how Republicans, Democrats, and even populist movements have failed to address the dire realities that threaten the nation. Boykin details the effects of the emergence and persistence of the Black Lives Matter movement; Democrats' failed strategies of incrementalism during the Obama era and the legacies of Clinton-era policies; the minority, obstructionist policies of the Republicans; and the Bernie Sanders coalition's well-meaning but race-neutral economic reforms. With few exceptions, Boykin contends, we have refused to learn from the mistakes of these efforts, leaving us utterly unprepared for the future. Drawing on on-the-ground reporting and political analysis based on his years as a Washington insider, Boykin argues that the path forward is a race-based restructuring of the country where equality -- not marginal improvement -- is the goal. This is what the Black Lives Matter era has demanded of us, and it is the only just future for America"--
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eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
vi, 292 pages
Contents
  • Introduction: Our weary year
  • The hope that the present has brought us. From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd ; Reckoning
  • The faith that the dark past has taught us. The never-ending civil war ; George Bush's kinder, gentler racism ; Bill Clinton's calculated triangulation ; George W. Bush's "soft bigotry" ; Barack Obama's unreciprocated optimism ; Donald Trump's white nationalism
  • Let us march on. Till victory is won ; Atonement ; Accountability ; Equality
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9781645037262
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Race against time : the politics of a darkening America
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Race against time
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the politics of a darkening America
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Keith Boykin
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Politics of a darkening America
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eng
Summary
"As the upheaval of 2020 has made clear, America has utterly failed to atone for its original sin of racism. As America turns blacker and browner, the combination of fearful whites, angry and newly empowered blacks, and an inexcusable absence of leadership from Washington has created ideal conditions for conflict. There is a way out of our burning race crisis -- but in order to prepare for the future, we first need to learn the lessons of the new age of reckoning. The current racial reckoning is the culmination of two decades of political miscalculations and ongoing organizing. In Race Against Time, national political commentator Keith Boykin offers a nuanced, in-depth account of political maneuverings from Washington to the streets, showing how Republicans, Democrats, and even populist movements have failed to address the dire realities that threaten the nation. Boykin details the effects of the emergence and persistence of the Black Lives Matter movement; Democrats' failed strategies of incrementalism during the Obama era and the legacies of Clinton-era policies; the minority, obstructionist policies of the Republicans; and the Bernie Sanders coalition's well-meaning but race-neutral economic reforms. With few exceptions, Boykin contends, we have refused to learn from the mistakes of these efforts, leaving us utterly unprepared for the future. Drawing on on-the-ground reporting and political analysis based on his years as a Washington insider, Boykin argues that the path forward is a race-based restructuring of the country where equality -- not marginal improvement -- is the goal. This is what the Black Lives Matter era has demanded of us, and it is the only just future for America"--
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  • Racism against Black people
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • United States
  • United States
  • Noirs américains
  • Noirs américains
  • États-Unis
  • États-Unis
  • HISTORY / United States / General
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Politics and government
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • United States
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Race against time : the politics of a darkening America, Keith Boykin
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Introduction: Our weary year -- The hope that the present has brought us. From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd ; Reckoning -- The faith that the dark past has taught us. The never-ending civil war ; George Bush's kinder, gentler racism ; Bill Clinton's calculated triangulation ; George W. Bush's "soft bigotry" ; Barack Obama's unreciprocated optimism ; Donald Trump's white nationalism -- Let us march on. Till victory is won ; Atonement ; Accountability ; Equality
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1245956625
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25 cm
Edition
First edition.
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vi, 292 pages
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9781645037262
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2021006571
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40030768629
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(OCoLC)1245956625
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Race against time : the politics of a darkening America, Keith Boykin
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Contents
Introduction: Our weary year -- The hope that the present has brought us. From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd ; Reckoning -- The faith that the dark past has taught us. The never-ending civil war ; George Bush's kinder, gentler racism ; Bill Clinton's calculated triangulation ; George W. Bush's "soft bigotry" ; Barack Obama's unreciprocated optimism ; Donald Trump's white nationalism -- Let us march on. Till victory is won ; Atonement ; Accountability ; Equality
Control code
1245956625
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
vi, 292 pages
Isbn
9781645037262
Lccn
2021006571
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
Other control number
40030768629
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(OCoLC)1245956625

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