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Author White, John Kenneth.

Title Barack Obama's America : how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era / John Kenneth White.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Contemporary political and social issues
Contemporary political and social issues.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction: The Politics of Discomfort -- One: One Family, Two Centuries -- Two: Twenty-first-Century Faces -- Three: Redefining Relationships -- Four: The Gay-Rights Paradox -- Five: Shrunken Congregations, Soulful Citizens -- Six: The Death of the Reagan Coalition -- Seven: Barack Obama's America.
Summary "The election of Barack Obama to the presidency marks a conclusive end to the Reagan era, writes John Kenneth White in Barack Obama's America. Reagan symbolized a 1950s and 1960s America, largely white and suburban, with married couples and kids at home, who attended church more often than not. Obama's election marks a new era, the author writes. Whites will be a minority by 2042. Marriage is at an all-time low. Cohabitation has increased from a half-million couples in 1960 to more than 5 million in 2000 to even more this year. Gay marriages and civil unions are redefining what it means to be a family. And organized religions are suffering, even as Americans continue to think of themselves as a religious people. Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts, as described in Barack Obama's America."--Publisher's description
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject Obama, Barack.
Reagan, Ronald.
Reagan, Ronald.
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjCKvFkHQ3F9QhY6vw3cP
Reagan, Ronald https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkxGVKC4TDbYQM67Vxv73
Obama, Barack.
Reagan, Ronald.
Coalitions -- United States -- History.
Families -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
Coalitions -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Familles -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Coalitions
Families
Social conditions
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Soziokultureller Wandel
USA
Chronological Term 1980-2020
Indexed Term Sociology.
barack obama.
Genre/Form History
Added Title How new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era
Other Form: Print version: Barack Obama's America Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. 9780472114504 (DLC) 2009018645
ISBN 0472021796 ebook
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