Barack Obama, in his acclaimed crusade speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in the US this day, quoted William Faulkner's well-known comment "The prior is not lifeless and buried. actually, it is not even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the ambiguity of race in Obama's the US and the way President Obama intends to house it.

Obama's trip to the White apartment absolutely marks a watershed within the heritage of race in the USA. but even in what's being hailed because the post-civil rights period, racial divisions--particularly among blacks and whites--remain deeply entrenched in American lifestyles. Sugrue strains Obama's evolving knowing of race and racial inequality all through his profession, from his early days as a neighborhood organizer in Chicago, to his time as an lawyer and pupil, to his excellent upward push to strength as a charismatic and savvy baby-kisser, to his dramatic presidential crusade. Sugrue seems to be at Obama's position within the contested background of the civil rights fight; his perspectives concerning the root factors of black poverty in the US; and the marvelous demanding situations confronting his historical presidency.

Does Obama's presidency sign the top of race in American lifestyles? In Not Even Past, a number one historian of civil rights, race, and concrete the USA bargains a revealing and unflinchingly sincere evaluate of the tradition and politics of race within the age of Obama, and of our customers for a postracial America.