Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

<p>By placing Obama in the historical context of U.S. race relations this volume interrogates the idealized and progressive view of American society advanced by much of the mainstream literature on Obama. <i>Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America</i> takes a careful look at the historical cultural and political dimensions of race in the United States using an interdisciplinary analysis that incorporates approaches from history political science and sociology.</p>