Wow! eBook
Rethinking Obama
Author(s): Julian Go (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: November 16, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 258 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857249118
- ISBN-13: 9780857249111
Book Description
This volume of “Political Power and Social Theory” includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. The “Scholarly Controversies” section features a debate on Obama and religion in the United States. This volume will be among the first to critically assess the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration, featuring controversial chapters by Phil Gorksi of Yale University and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University, among others.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This issue of the annual Political Power and Social Theory series differs from previous volumes in that it concentrates on one subject. Editor Go (Boston U.) provides a brief introduction explaining that the six diverse essays on the politics of race that comprise the first section were assembled by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Louise Seamster (both: sociology, Duke U.). The second section, compiled by Philip S. Gorski (sociology, Yale U.), consists of five essays on Obama and civil religion in the US. The volume is not indexed. Distribution in North America is by Turpin Distribution. –Book News Inc. Portland, OR
About the Author
Julian Go – Boston University, USA
