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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

Houghton Harcourt. 2016. 368p. ISBN 9780544387669. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780544386426.

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Using interviews with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson along with Barack Obama himself, Dyson explores the legacy and meaning of the first black presidency. Both insightful and critical, Dyson's work analyzes how Obama publicly spoke about race in the wake of the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner and the events that played out in Ferguson, MO, and Charleston, SC.

Reviewed by Karl Helicher , Apr 01, 2016

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