The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" - Contributors

Contributors

Essays are from "contributors of diverse backgrounds and vocations" including;

• Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and author Omar H. Ali, "Obama and the Generational Challenge"
• ta-Nehisi Coates
• Michael Eric Dyson
• political commentator Keli Goff
• Biblical scholar and theologian Obery M. Hendricks Jr., "A More Perfect (High-Tech) Lynching."
• columnist Derrick Jackson, contributed three parts; "Wright Stuff Wrong Time", the build-up to the speech, the press pool reaction to the speech and the ways the speech took on its own life during the campaign.
• Glenn Loury
• author and playwright Adam Mansbach, "Toward a More Perfect Union?"
• journalist, author and cultural critic Joan Morgan, "Black Like Barack"
• Orlando Patterson
• novelist Alice Randall, "Barack in the Dirty, Dirty South."
• columnist Connie Schultz
• sociolinguist Geneva Smitherman
• professor, researcher and consultant Gilman Whiting
• sociologist William Julius Wilson