LEADER 04279cam 2200529 a 4500001 ocn320187212 003 OCoLC 005 20141212052718.0 008 091015s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 2009043525 020 9780553806922 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 0553806920 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 9780553385373 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 0553385372 (pbk. : alk. paper) 029 1 CDX |b10122566 029 1 CDX |b10122568 029 1 AU@ |b000044842574 035 (Sirsi) o320187212 035 (OCoLC)320187212 040 DLC |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dJQW |dORX |dC#P |dCDX |dBWX |dTLE |dUtOrBLW 043 n-us--- 049 EREE 050 00 PS683.A35 |bB47 2010 082 00 814/.0080896073 |222 245 00 Best African American essays, 2010 / |cGerald Early, series editor ; Randall Kennedy, guest editor. 246 30 African American essays, 2010 260 New York : |bOne World, Ballantine Books, |c©2010. 300 xxvii, 366 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 A more perfect union / Barack Obama -- A deeper Black / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Obama no / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- Who died and made Tavis king? / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- What Obama means to the world / Gary Younge -- Finally, a thin president / Colson Whitehead -- Judge Obama on performance alone / Juan Williams -- Obama, the instability of color lines, and the promise of a postethnic future / David A. Hollinger -- What Michelle can teach us / Allison Samuels -- Movin' on up / Margo Jefferson -- The other Obama : Michelle Obama and the politics of candor / Lauren Collins -- Project Trinity : the perilous mission of Obama's church / Kelefa Sanneh -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem / Gary Kamiya -- America's greatest hits / Lolis Eric Elie -- The end of the Black American narrative / Charles Johnson -- In defense of George Bush / Jelani Cobb -- The end of White America? / Hua Hsu -- Amy Winehouse and the Black art of appropriation / Daphne A. Brooks -- This is how we lost to the white man / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Before grief / Jerald Walker -- The other Black president / Adam Serwer -- Family matters / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The purrrfect diva : Eartha Kitt had a taste for the best things in life / Wil Haygood -- Miriam Makeba : in troubled times, she was the voice of a country / Wil Haygood -- Isaac Hayes : unshackled by history's chains / Wil Haygood -- Excerpt from Pig candy / Lise Funderburg -- Talking about not talking about race / Patricia J. Williams -- On Black History Month / Eric Holder -- On race, Blacks are cowards, too / Bill Maxwell -- What is the race card? / Richard Thompson Ford -- Creature features : a two-part invention on racial profiling / Gerald Early -- This machine kills fascists / Gerald Early -- Obama victory raises social significance of basketball / Scoop Jackson -- Joe Louis moment / William C. Rhoden -- Still crazy after all these years / L. Jon Wertheim -- Ethical treatment for a quarterback / Phil Taylor -- The fire this time / Rita Dove -- On Rita Dove / Erika Meitner -- Chester Himes : exile & 125th Street / Michael A. Gonzales -- Multiracialism and the social construction of race : the story of Hudgins v.Wrights / Angela Onwuachi-Willig -- The dilemma of the American Negro scholar / John Hope Franklin. 650 0 African Americans |vLiterary collections. |=^A435417 650 0 African Americans |xPolitics and government. |=^A113945 650 0 African Americans |xSocial conditions. |=^A4266 650 0 African Americans |xIntellectual life. |=^A16273 650 0 American essays |y21st century. |=^A1037107 700 1 Early, Gerald Lyn. |=^A253923 700 1 Kennedy, Randall, |d1954- |=^A510773 994 C0 |bERE 938 Coutts Information Services |bCOUT |n10122568 |c25.00 USD 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n3144545 938 Blackwell Book Service |bBBUS |nR8826260 |c$16.00 596 1 998 2298408