books.google.com - The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason, Randall Kennedy gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Persistence_of_the_Color_Line_Racial.html?id=Q966ZYRHo7gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency