Between Barack and a Hard Place

Between Barack and a Hard Place
Author	Tim Wise
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Barack Obama, racism in the United States
Publisher	City Lights
Publication date	2009
Media type	Print
Pages	159
ISBN	978-0-87286-500-6
OCLC	261176371

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama is a non-fiction book by the anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise, published by City Lights in 2009.^[1]^[2]

In the book Wise argues that the election of Barack Obama did not signal the end of racism in America,^[3] writing that his political success could instead "deepen the denial in which so much of the white public has been embedded for generations."^[4]

^ "Stacey Lewis Interview with Tim Wise". City Lights. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
^ Tim Wise (April 4, 2009). "Tim Wise - Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama". Book TV. Memphis. C-SPAN. White Privilege Conference. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
^ Wormer, Katherine Van (2010). Human Behavior and the Social Environment (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974007-9.
^ Jones, Sandra J. (2010). Coalition Building in the Anti-death Penalty Movement. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-7391-2038-5.

[1] "Stacey Lewis Interview with Tim Wise". City Lights. Retrieved November 23, 2011.

[2] Tim Wise (April 4, 2009). "Tim Wise - Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama". Book TV. Memphis. C-SPAN. White Privilege Conference. Retrieved April 5, 2015.

[3] Wormer, Katherine Van (2010). Human Behavior and the Social Environment (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974007-9.

[4] Jones, Sandra J. (2010). Coalition Building in the Anti-death Penalty Movement. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-7391-2038-5.

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