A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis

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Cornell Belcher Howard Dean

A Black Man in the White House

Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis

Cornell Belcher, Howard Dean

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English

Water Street Press
01 November 2016

History; Social & cultural history; Social discrimination; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Central government

In this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama's presidential election team, presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged these racial fault lines continue to be. He has surveyed battleground voters from 2008 through the 2016 primary season tracking racial aversion and its impact over the course of the Obama presidency. Given the heightened racial aversion as a consequence of the first non-white male living in the White House, the rise of Trump was a predictable backlash. The election of the nation's first Black president does not mean that we live in a post-racial society; it means that we are now at a critical historical tipping point demographically and culturally in America--and this tipping point is indeed the wolf at the door for many anxious white Americans who are now politically behaving accordingly given this perceived threat.

The panicked response of the waning white majority to what they perceive as the catastrophe of a Black president can be heard in every cry to ""take back our country."" This panic has resulted in the elevation of an overt and unapologetic racist as the nominee of one of America's major political parties.

By: Cornell Belcher
Other: Howard Dean
Imprint: Water Street Press
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781621343608
ISBN 10: 162134360X
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 01 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cornell Belcher is an award-winning pollster and one of the premier strategists in national progressive politics. His polling was the blueprint for the heralded 50-State Strategy as Pollster for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) under Chairman Howard Dean-Belcher was the first minority to be lead pollster for either national party. He also served on the polling team for both Obama presidential campaigns, and has worked with both Senate and House Democrats as Senior Political Advisor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), Special Projects Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Women VOTE! Coordinator for EMILY's List. In 2015 he was an Institute of Politics (IOP) Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He is a highly sought after political commentator, and is currently President of brilliant corners Research & Strategies, www.brilliant-corners.com.