John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance [electronic resource] / Robert C. Smith.
Series: SUNY series in African American studiesPublication details: Albany : SUNY Press, c2013.Description: xii, 254 pISBN:- 9781438445595 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438445618 (e-book)
- 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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- E184.A1 S6645 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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