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John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance by Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-

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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