Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media

Name: Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781926824208
Price: 11.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-926-82420-8

The Return of the Nigger Breakers

de Ishmael Reed (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

octobre 2011

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For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. “Isn’t it ironic,” writes Reed: “A media that scolded the Jim Crow South in the 1960s now finds itself hosting the bird.” In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama’s election and first year in power—establishing himself as the conscience of a country that was once moved by Martin Luther King’s dream.

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Ishmael Reed (auteur)

Ishmael Reed is an essayist, novelist, poet and playwright, and a prizewinner in all categories. He taught at the University of California (Berkeley) for thirty-five years, as well as at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. Reed is a member of Harvard’s Signet Society and Yale’s Calhoun Society. He lives in Oakland, California.

Auteur(s) : Ishmael Reed