03407nam 2200769 a 450 991045213160332120200520144314.00-19-025248-01-280-59568-X97866136255190-19-987644-4(CKB)2550000000099721(EBL)916047(OCoLC)793996700(SSID)ssj0001667591(PQKBManifestationID)16456715(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001667591(PQKBWorkID)15001954(PQKB)10082543(SSID)ssj0000640031(PQKBManifestationID)12261616(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640031(PQKBWorkID)10611222(PQKB)11518499(StDuBDS)EDZ0001019353(MiAaPQ)EBC916047(Au-PeEL)EBL916047(CaPaEBR)ebr10560962(CaONFJC)MIL362551(EXLCZ)99255000000009972120120123d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe price of the ticket[electronic resource] Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics /Fredrick C. HarrisOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (229 p.)Transgressing boundaries : studies in Black politics and Black communitiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-932523-5 0-19-973967-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Clash of ideas -- Chicago, political capital of Black America -- Entering the promise land -- Respectability as public philosophy -- Wink, nod, vote -- Price of the ticket.The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he was the candidate of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible. The path to his presidency began just before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when bTransgressing boundaries.African AmericansPolitics and government20th centuryAfrican AmericansPolitics and government21st centuryAfrican American political activistsHistory20th centuryAfrican American politiciansHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1989United StatesPolitics and government1989-Electronic books.African AmericansPolitics and governmentAfrican AmericansPolitics and governmentAfrican American political activistsHistoryAfrican American politiciansHistory323.1196/073Harris Fredrick C987029MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452131603321The price of the ticket2255567UNINA