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columnist Derrick Johnson's coverage of the highlights of the 2008 election. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the editor of the book, moderated the event. After she read a passage from an essay the contributor made comments, focusing on the concept of a post-racial country. Then the panelists responded to
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The book is a collection of original essays from "leading black thinkers" – journalists, scholars and public intellectuals – exploring literary, political, social and cultural issues of Obama's speech. In addition to the essays, the full text of the speech is included as well as a journalistic look
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said the collection is "scholarly without being dry, the book offers a way forward from what has become a stalemate between a "color-blind" white America that sees racism as a problem solved in the 1960s and a nation of ethnic minorities that experiences daily its structural inequities."
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called the speech "arguably the biggest political event of the campaign so far," noting that 85 percent of Americans said they had heard at least a little about the speech and that 54 percent said they heard a lot about it. Eventually,
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and groups of the essayists were brought together on several occasions around the US with a few of them being recorded and one being aired on national cable television. In October 2009,
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columnist Derrick Jackson, contributed three parts; "Wright Stuff Wrong Time", the build-up to the speech, the press pool reaction to the speech and the ways the speech took on its own life during the campaign.
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because Sharply-Whiting's contact at the publisher kept referring to Obama's speech as "the speech, the speech" and prompted a book to be written on the subject. She was also inspired by the core components of
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opined that the speech helped elect Obama as the President of the United States. The speech itself was widely praised as eloquent and honest and concerned racial issues in the United States. Obama, of
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questions from members of the audience. The event called "Is America Postracial?" was held by Vanderbilt University at 8:00 p.m. CT on Thursday, September 16, 2009, in Wilson Hall.
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Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (moderator), Obery M. Hendricks Jr., Derrick Jackson, Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall, Gilman W. Whiting (panelists) (16 September 2009).
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Jelani Cobb (moderator), T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Keli Goff, Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Adam Mansbach, and Joan Morgan (panelists) (October 14, 2009).
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noted, "Overall, "The Speech," though somewhat uneven, is a rich landscape of opinion on the state of race and Obama's singular relationship to it."
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called the book an "eye-opening collection of essays" although they also called it "a provocative, if uneven set of essays".
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Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and author Omar H. Ali, "Obama and the Generational Challenge"
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Biblical scholar and theologian Obery M. Hendricks Jr., "A More Perfect (High-Tech) Lynching."
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The speech was delivered on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the
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Essays are from "contributors of diverse backgrounds and vocations" including;
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The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"
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journalist, author and cultural critic Joan Morgan, "Black Like Barack"
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author and playwright Adam Mansbach, "Toward a More Perfect Union?"
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novelist Alice Randall, "Barack in the Dirty, Dirty South."
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and race relations in America that was sparked by the
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professor, researcher and consultant Gilman Whiting
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Bloomsbury USA
Paperback
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978-1-59691-667-8
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306806376
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Vanderbilt University
A More Perfect Union
Senator
Barack Obama
2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania

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