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A Black Man in the White House
Cornell Belcher
Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis
Water Street Press
October 2016
On Sale: October 19, 2016
256 pages ISBN: 162134360X EAN: 9781621343608 Kindle: B01MQ4HIWF Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political
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.'
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