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The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

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The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiography by the Association of American Publishers In The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency's historical environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans—the tens of millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his years in office. In Obama's own words, his White House years were "the best of times and worst of times" for Black America. Clegg is vitally concerned with the veracity of this claim, along with how Obama engaged the aspirations, struggles, and disappointments of his most loyal constituency and how representative segments of Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic presidency. Clegg draws on an expansive archive of materials, including government records and reports, interviews, speeches, memoirs, and insider accounts, in order to examine Obama's complicated upbringing and early political ambitions, his delicate navigation of matters of race, the nature and impacts of his administration's policies and politics, the inspired but also carefully choreographed symbolism of his presidency (and Michelle Obama's role), and the spectrum of allies and enemies that he made along the way. The successes and the aspirations of the Obama era, Clegg argues, are explicitly connected to our current racist, toxic political discourse. Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.

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1421441896

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early twentieth century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. Moving swiftly between memory and history, between the personal and the political, Clegg offers insights into southern history, mob violence, and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms on a personal level with the violence of the past. Three black men were killed in front of a crowd of thousands in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906, following the ax murder of a local white family for whom the men had worked. One of the lynchers was prosecuted for his role in the execution, the first conviction of its kind in North Carolina and one of the earliest in the country. Yet Clegg, an academic historian who grew up in Salisbury, had never heard of the case until 2002 and could not find anyone else familiar with the case. In this book, Clegg mines newspaper accounts and government records and links the victims of the 1906 case to a double-lynching in 1902, suggesting a complex history of lynching in the area while revealing the determination of the city to rid its history of a shameful and shocking chapter. The result is a multi-layered, deeply personal exploration of lynching and lynching prosecutions in the United States.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252090098

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9780252090097

The Price of Liberty

African Americans and the Making of Liberia

By: Claude Andrew Clegg

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African Americans and the Making of Liberia

By: Claude Andrew Clegg

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807855162

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9780807855164

The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

By: Claude Andrew Clegg, III,Claude Andrew Clegg

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The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

By: Claude Andrew Clegg, III,Claude Andrew Clegg

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UNC Press Books

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1469618052

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The Price of Liberty

African Americans and the Making of Liberia

By: Claude Andrew Clegg III

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The Price of Liberty

African Americans and the Making of Liberia

By: Claude Andrew Clegg III

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.

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080789558X

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Searching for a Troubled Past -- 1. Bygones -- 2. Old Demons of the New South -- 3. The Reaping -- 4. Presumed Guilt -- 5. A Blot Upon the State -- 6. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cover 4.

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0252035887

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The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

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Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

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