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Lessie B. Branch, “Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama’s America” (U Massachusetts Press, 2018)

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:45:19
Publish Date: 2018-08-17 05:00:49
Description: Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama’s America (University of  Massachusetts Press, 2018) takes as its point of departure and central preoccupation, the notion of “paradoxical ebullience” by which author Lessie B. Branch means the optimism expressed by African Americans during the presidency of Barack Obama despite...
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