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Barack Obama's America : How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era

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The election of Barack Obama to the presidency marked 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 marked 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.

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306.850 973 090 5 WHI b

Publisher

: ., 2009

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Language

English

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978-0-472-02179-6

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306.850 973 090 5

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

Family—United States—History

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John Kenneth White

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maya

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