The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society
Online ISBN:
9781781702901
Print ISBN:
9780719082771
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Book
The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society
Published:
11 March 2010
Online ISBN:
9781781702901
Print ISBN:
9780719082771
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Cite
Clark, Tom, Robert D. Putnam, and Edward Fieldhouse, The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society (Manchester , 2010; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 July 2012), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719082771.001.0001, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
Drawing on collaborative research from a team at Harvard and Manchester universities, this book asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that is being felt around the rich world. Injustice, it turns out, still blights the lives of many UK and US minorities – particularly African Americans – and there are signs that the new diversity strains community life. Yet in both countries, public opinion is running irreversibly in favour of tolerance. That augurs well for the future – and suggests that a British Obama cannot be ruled out.
Keywords:
diversity, injustice, minorities, African Americans, community life, public opinion, tolerance, British Obama, collaborative research, rich world
Subject
US Politics
Contents
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Front Matter
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1
Introduction: the diversity revolution
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2
Two concepts in two countries: race and migration
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3
Home truths: how minorities live
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4
The rickety ladder of opportunity: minorities and work
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5
Mosaic or cracked vase? Diversity and community life
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6
Distorting mirrors: media framing and political debate
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7
Tidal generation: politics and deeper currents in public opinion
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8
Concluding thoughts: making a success of the revolution
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End Matter
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