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John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance

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Main Author: Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : SUNY Press, c2013.
Series:SUNY series in African American studies
Subjects:
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963.
Obama, Barack.
Minorities > Political activity > United States.
Political participation > United States.
Irish Americans > Politics and government.
Catholics > Political activity > United States.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Presidents > United States > Election > 1960.
Presidents > United States > Election > 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States
  • The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans
  • Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans
  • Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama
  • Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns
  • The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans
  • Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity
  • Religion and the election of 1960
  • Race and the election of 2008
  • The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.

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