The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society
Tom Clark, Robert D. Putnam, and Edward Fieldhouse
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
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719082771 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719082771.001.0001 |
