Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty AUTH-3359225 ISBN10: 1530873606

ISBN10: 1530873606

The poems question the idea of an easy or singular identity

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but this wily vixen is more than ready for the challenge

His great passion was that God's children everywhere would press beyond the shallow and superficial and into a deep understanding of the ways and workings of God

Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty AUTH-3359225 ISBN10: 1530873606From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black