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" Barack Obama's America : "
John Kenneth White
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BL
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658543
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White, John Kenneth,1952-
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Barack Obama's America : : how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era /\ John Kenneth White
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, ©2009
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Contemporary political and social issues
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1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0472021796
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: 0472114506
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: 9780472021796
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: 9780472114504
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: 9780472900909
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0472033913
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9780472033911
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| Contents
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Introduction: The Politics of Discomfort -- One: One Family, Two Centuries -- Two: Twenty-first-Century Faces -- Three: Redefining Relationships -- Four: The Gay-Rights Paradox -- Five: Shrunken Congregations, Soulful Citizens -- Six: The Death of the Reagan Coalition -- Seven: Barack Obama's America
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"The election of Barack Obama to the presidency marks a conclusive end to the Reagan era, writes John Kenneth White in Barack Obama's America. Reagan symbolized a 1950s and 1960s America, largely white and suburban, with married couples and kids at home, who attended church more often than not. Obama's election marks a new era, the author writes. Whites will be a minority by 2042. Marriage is at an all-time low. Cohabitation has increased from a half-million couples in 1960 to more than 5 million in 2000 to even more this year. Gay marriages and civil unions are redefining what it means to be a family. And organized religions are suffering, even as Americans continue to think of themselves as a religious people. Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts, as described in Barack Obama's America."--Publisher's description
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Obama, Barack
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Reagan, Ronald
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Coalitions-- United States-- History
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Families-- United States-- History
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United States, Social conditions, 1980-
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HQ535.W47 2009eb
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