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

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

"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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Main Author: Harris, Fredrick C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Transgressing boundaries.
Subjects:
Obama, Barack > Relations with African Americans.
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.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
Genre/Form:Electronic books
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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