
ISBN
PDF : 9781926824215 ePub : 9781926824208 Papier : 9780981240572
Mot clés
nonfiction;politics;African American Studies
Parution
2010
Nombre de pages
253
Nombre de chapitres
20
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
Auteur
Ishmael Reed
Éditeur
Description
For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. “Isn’t it ironic,” writes Reed: “A media that scolded the Jim Crow South in the 1960s now finds itself hosting the bird.” In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama’s election and first year in power—establishing himself as the conscience of a country that was once moved by Martin Luther King’s dream.
Table des matières
- Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media1
- Notable East Bay residents hail Obama era's dawn9
- Contents11
- Foreword13
- Introduction29
- Going Old South on Obama / Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man*41
- The Crazy Rev. Wright61
- Springtime for Benedict and Sarah73
- The Big Let Down / Obama Scolds Black FathersGets Bounce in Polls101
- McCain Gurgles in the Slime111
- Boogiemen / How Lee Atwater Perfected the GOP's Appeal to Racism*117
- The Promised Land? / Morning in Obamerica127
- A Tale of Two Callahans The Irish Black Thing133
- Finally Came the Inaugural / The Inaugural And My Coffee Pot Search141
- How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation's Leading Black Intellectual / Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism159
- Why the Media and its General Public Bought Sgt. Crowley's Lie / Let's All Have a Beer*171
- Obama Souljahs On, Africa This Time185
- From Jubilation at Election Night / To Cries of Kill Him193
- Afterword / Obama, Tiger, Vick, MJ, etc. Is There Any Cure for Negro Mania?219
- Appendix / Poll Shows the Jim Crow Media is Barack Obama's Chief Opponent245
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