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Blackwards : how Black leadership is returning America to the days of separate but equal
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- Creator
- Ron Christie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 290 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312591472, 0312591470, 9781250013521, 1250013526
- OCLC
- ocn778421536
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The seeds of the Blacklash : when did America stray from equality under the law to a push for special rather than equal rights? -- Affirmative action : how the vision for true equality under the law has retreated to the days of separate and unequal treatment in American society -- So-called Black leaders creating a blacklash while pursuing a Black agenda -- Candidate Obama and the manipulation of race : setting the stage for blacklash -- A nation of cowards : how the Obama administration deepened racial divisions rather than unify the country -- Of police officers acting stupidly and Black Panthers as "my people" : cementing the impression Blacks were entitled to special rather than equal rights in the Obama era -- Playing the race card has created a blacklash in the Obama era -- The path ahead to end the blacklash
Subjects
- African Americans -- History -- 1964-
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 2009-.
- African Americans -- Politics and government.
- African American leadership.
- United States -- Race relations -- History.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.