Barack Obama's America : how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era / John Kenneth White.

"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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Main Author: White, John Kenneth
Other title:How new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009.
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.