The Bridge-Builders

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1Remnick, The Bridge, 382. 2Brinkley, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2010; Harris, The Sunday Times, May 2, 2010; Williams, The Observer, May 2, 2010. 3Gates Jr, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” The New York Times, April 23, 2010. 4Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, 83–4. 5James, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia, 262–91. 6Cruse, Crisis, 556–7, 194–5. 7Obama, Dreams From My Father, 189, 194. 8Ibid., 114, 92. 9Ibid., ix, 195. 10Ibid., 203. 11Also see Unger, Democracy Realized, 256; Sustar, “The Obama Myth,” Socialist Worker, November 3, 2006. 12Will, “Misreading Obama's Identity,” Washington Post, December 30, 2007. 13Obama, Dreams, ix, 100. 14Also see Obama, Audacity of Hope, 202; Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, 191. 15Obama, “Keynote Address”, 2004 Democratic National Convention, 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston. 16Biko, I Write What I Like, 48. 17Ibid., 91.