The price of the ticket [[electronic resource] ] : Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics / / Fredrick C. Harris

• Autore: Harris Fredrick C
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century; African Americans - Politics and government - 21st century; African American political activists - History - 20th century; African American politicians - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1945-1989; United States Politics and government 1989-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Clash of ideas -- Chicago, political capital of Black America -- Entering the promise land -- Respectability as public philosophy -- Wink, nod, vote -- Price of the ticket.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 b
• Titolo autorizzato: The price of the ticket
• ISBN: 0-19-991070-7; 0-19-025248-0; 1-280-59568-X; 9786613625519; 0-19-987644-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779195703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transgressing boundaries.