Is America Really Post-Racial?
The Jamestown Project will publish, Is America Really Post-Racial in the fall of 2010. The book captures our inaugural Rapsessions dialogue between a prominent group of writers, activists, academics and media personalities gathered at Harvard Law School shortly after the inauguration of President Obama to offer a variety of provocative views on race in the age of Obama. They explored the question, “Is America Really Post Racial? in the context of the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama that electrified American voters like no election in decades — ushering in for many the post-racial era. More than ever, America seemed poised to leave its centuries-old racial dilemma on the pages of history.
The book will add commentary from Stephanie Robinson throughout, gauging how the post-racial concept matches up to our contemporary reality while examining America’s ‘new racial politics.’ The book will include a foreword by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and an introduction by Senior Fellow Bakari Kitwana .
While Democracy Sleeps
The Jamestown Project is working on publishing an anthology that will
explore a broad notion of democracy that goes beyond formal politics to
embrace family, social movements, culture, ethics, religion, and
militarism. Unlike previous works on democracy that typically contain
the opinion of one author, The Jamestown Project’s anthology,
preliminarily entitled “While Democracy Sleeps,” will offer the
perspectives of numerous authors and activists interested in civic
engagement and democracy. The essay topics include: the role of the
military in a democracy; access to information affecting the democratic
life of a nation; the relationship between the institution of the
family and democratic values; media control and democratic practices;
democratic legitimacy and the criminal justice system; the tension
between science and religion in a democracy; the impact of social
movements in extending the formal “rights” democracy confers; and the
role of the workplace in fostering democratic values. Through these
topics, among others, the book will illustrate the difficulties and
promises that inhere in contemporary American democracy. The book will
be accessible to a broad audience of citizens, academics, policy
makers, activists and students concerned about the enervation of
American public life.
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