TY  - GEN
AU  - White,John Kenneth
TI  - Barack Obama's America : How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
SN  - mpub.17422
PY  - 2009///0804
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - barack obama
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Republican Party (United States)
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30574/1/645335.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30574/1/645335.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30574/1/645335.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28185
ER  -