LEADER 03404nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910779195703321 005 20230802005001.0 010 $a0-19-991070-7 010 $a0-19-025248-0 010 $a1-280-59568-X 010 $a9786613625519 010 $a0-19-987644-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000099721 035 $a(EBL)916047 035 $a(OCoLC)793996700 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001667591 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16456715 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001667591 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15001954 035 $a(PQKB)10082543 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640031 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12261616 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640031 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611222 035 $a(PQKB)11518499 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001019353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC916047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL916047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10560962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362551 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000099721 100 $a20120123d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe price of the ticket$b[electronic resource] $eBarack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics /$fFredrick C. Harris 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 225 1 $aTransgressing boundaries : studies in Black politics and Black communities 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-932523-5 311 $a0-19-973967-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aClash of ideas -- Chicago, political capital of Black America -- Entering the promise land -- Respectability as public philosophy -- Wink, nod, vote -- Price of the ticket. 330 $aThe historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he was the candidate of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible. The path to his presidency began just before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when b 410 0$aTransgressing boundaries. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y21st century 606 $aAfrican American political activists$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American politicians$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican American political activists$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American politicians$xHistory 676 $a323.1196/073 700 $aHarris$b Fredrick C$01540889 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779195703321 996 $aThe price of the ticket$93792782 997 $aUNINA