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008			210327s2021 nyu 000 0 eng
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100	1		_aBoykin, Keith, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRace against time : _bthe politics of a darkening America / _cKeith Boykin.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2109
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPublicAffairs ; _aNew York, NY : _bBold Type Books, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_avi, 292 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntroduction: Our weary year -- The hope that the present has brought us. From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd ; Reckoning -- The faith that the dark past has taught us. The never-ending civil war ; George Bush's kinder, gentler racism ; Bill Clinton's calculated triangulation ; George W. Bush's "soft bigotry" ; Barack Obama's unreciprocated optimism ; Donald Trump's white nationalism -- Let us march on. Till victory is won ; Atonement ; Accountability ; Equality.
520			_a"As the upheaval of 2020 has made clear, America has utterly failed to atone for its original sin of racism. As America turns blacker and browner, the combination of fearful whites, angry and newly empowered blacks, and an inexcusable absence of leadership from Washington has created ideal conditions for conflict. There is a way out of our burning race crisis -- but in order to prepare for the future, we first need to learn the lessons of the new age of reckoning. The current racial reckoning is the culmination of two decades of political miscalculations and ongoing organizing. In Race Against Time, national political commentator Keith Boykin offers a nuanced, in-depth account of political maneuverings from Washington to the streets, showing how Republicans, Democrats, and even populist movements have failed to address the dire realities that threaten the nation. Boykin details the effects of the emergence and persistence of the Black Lives Matter movement; Democrats' failed strategies of incrementalism during the Obama era and the legacies of Clinton-era policies; the minority, obstructionist policies of the Republicans; and the Bernie Sanders coalition's well-meaning but race-neutral economic reforms. With few exceptions, Boykin contends, we have refused to learn from the mistakes of these efforts, leaving us utterly unprepared for the future. Drawing on on-the-ground reporting and political analysis based on his years as a Washington insider, Boykin argues that the path forward is a race-based restructuring of the country where equality -- not marginal improvement -- is the goal. This is what the Black Lives Matter era has demanded of us, and it is the only just future for America"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States _xHistory. _9134669
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xPolitics and government _y21st century. _9293409
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xSocial conditions _y21st century. _9120085
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _y21st century. _9247797
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y21st century. _9124279
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