The price of the ticket : Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics /
"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 Fredric...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Series: | Transgressing boundaries.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Clash of ideas
- Chicago, political capital of Black America
- Entering the promise land
- Respectability as public philosophy
- Wink, nod, vote
- Price of the ticket.