Barack Obama's America : how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era / John Kenneth White.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary political and social issuesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- How new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era
- Obama, Barack
- Reagan, Ronald
- Reagan, Ronald
- Obama, Barack
- Obama, Barack
- Reagan, Ronald
- Obama, Barack
- Reagan, Ronald
- Coalitions -- United States -- History
- Families -- United States -- History
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion
- Coalitions
- Families
- Social conditions
- United States
- Soziokultureller Wandel
- USA
- Since 1980
- Sociology
- barack obama
- 306.8509730905 22
- HQ535
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
"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
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