Barack Obama's America how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era

"The election of Barack Obama to the presidency marks a conclusive end to the Reagan era, writes John Kenneth White in Barack Obama's America. Reagan symbolized a 1950s and 1960s America, largely white and suburban, with married couples and kids at home, who attended church more often than...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, John Kenneth, 1952- (-)
Corporate Author: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher (publisher)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press c2009.
Series:Contemporary political and social issues
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Politics of Discomfort
  • One: One Family, Two Centuries
  • Two: Twenty-first-Century Faces
  • Three: Redefining Relationships
  • Four: The Gay-Rights Paradox
  • Five: Shrunken Congregations, Soulful Citizens
  • Six: The Death of the Reagan Coalition
  • Seven: Barack Obama's America.