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![](http://www.usaonrace.com/sites/default/files/styles/150x150/public/bookreviews/ClybournePark3-1024x736_0.jpg?itok=ip9FwsEX "Racial tensions are implicit in both acts of "Clybourne Park," but the play excels in linking them with other forms of discrimination and hate. Pictured from left: Grant Goodman, Greta Wohlrabe (back), Marti Gobel, James T. Alfred. Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow")
BALTIMORE (AP) - Growing up in Britain, Kwame Kwei-Armah saw the American classic "A Raisin in the Sun" perhaps more often than any other play, with its powerful portrayal of race relations.
More than 50 years after the debut of "Raisin," the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Clybourne Park" picked up on the story. It was striking to Kwei-Armah for its frank take on race and made him want to respond.
“In this well written, comprehensive and concise book, Harvard professor James T. Kloppenberg details Obama’s complex intellectual influences, which includes political theory, social justice, theology and race.”
“I talk a lot now, but I used to sit down, shut up, and listen.”
“I talk a lot now, but I used to sit down, shut up, and listen.”
Despite having published three books, Listen up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, Q: The Autobiography, and The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journeys and Passions, producer, composer, arranger, humanitarian, Quincy Jones has never really talked exclusively about how he makes music – until now.
It’s easy to assume that the racial designation ‘white” has remained unchanged throughout history. But as Princeton historian Nell Irvin Painter – an award-winning historian of American history, and the author of several critically-acclaimed books including, Sojourner Truth, and Creating Black-Americans, methodically and masterfully argues in this important work – whiteness has never been fixed, and it has always been influenced by economic, social, religious, and political ideologies.
This concise and comprehensive book by Spelman College history professor William Jelani Cobb, explores the intricate historical, and political implications of what Obama's historic presidency means for black Americans.