Barack Obama and African American Empowerment : The Rise of Black America's New Leadership / / edited by M. Marable

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2009.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.932092
• Soggetto topico: Europe - Politics and government; Political sociology; Race; Political science; Elections; African Americans; Culture; European Politics; Political Sociology; Race and Ethnicity Studies; Political Science; Electoral Politics; African American Culture
• Altri autori: MarableManning <1950-2011.> ClarkeKristen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: System values and African American leadership / Robert C. Smith -- The limits of Black pragmatism: the rise and fall of David Dinkins, 1989-1993 / Ryan Reft -- City politics and Black protest: the economic transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville / Derek S. Hyra -- Toward a pragmatic Black politics / Fredrick Harris -- On Black leadership, Black politics, and the US immigration debate / Mark Sawyer -- The political orientations of young African Americans / David A. Bositis -- The case for a neo-rainbow electoral strategy / Danny Glover and Bill Fletcher, Jr. -- The ethics of Colin Powell / Grant Farred -- First Lady in black: Michelle Obama and the crisis of race and gender / Gerald Horne and Malaika Horne-Wells -- The race problematic, the narrative of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the election of Barack Obama / Rickey Hill -- From Idol to Obama: what TV elections teach us about race, youth, and voting / Sherrilyn Ifill -- Race, postblack politics, and the democratic presidential candidacy of Barack Obama / Carly Fraser -- Sovereign kinship and the president-elect / Joy James -- You may not get there with me: Obama and the Black political establishment / Kareem Crayton -- Barack Obama and the Black electorate in Georgia: identifying the disenfranchised / Keesha M. Middlemass -- Barack Obama's candidacy and the collateral consequences of the politics of fear / Gregory S. Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- The struggle continues: combating voting discrimination in the Obama era / Kristen Clarke.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States, as part of the continuum of African American political leaders.
• Titolo autorizzato: Barack Obama and African American Empowerment
• ISBN: 9786612742552; 9781282742550; 1282742558; 9780230103290; 0230103294
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964254603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Black Studies, . 2945-7424