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What's wrong with Obamamania? : Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination / Ricky L. Jones ; with a foreword by J. Blaine Hudson.
Van Pelt Library E901.1.O23 J66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Ricky L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Barack--Political and social views.
- Obama, Barack.
- Obama, Barack--Public opinion.
- Presidential candidates--United States.
- Presidential candidates.
- Public opinion.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- African Americans.
- African American leadership.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Presidents--United States--Election--2008.
- Presidents.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Race relations.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 144 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Barack Obama's sudden arrival on the national scene has created a wave of excitement in American politics, a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Obamamania." In What's Wrong with Obamamania?, Ricky L. Jones places Obama's run for the presidency in the context of deep and often disturbing shifts in black leadership since the 1960s. From Charles Hamilton Houston to Thurgood Marshall to Jesse Jackson, from prosperity preachers to megachurches, from W. E. B. Du Bois's Talented Tenth and civil rights advocates to Black Entertainment Television and hip-hop culture, Jones paints a picture of lowered expectations, cynicism, and nihilism that should give us all pause.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Jesse Jackson Didn't Give a Damn! 1
- 1 A Series of Unfortunate (and Unsavory) Events: Paving the Way for "Obamamania" 9
- 2 Sorry, DuBois Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The Soulessness of the New Talented Tenth 25
- 3 The Witch and the Devil: American Political Philosophy and Black Suffering 43
- 4 "Black Hawks" Down: America's War on Terror and the Rise of Bushism 57
- 5 I Don't Care What Jesus Would Do; I've Got to Get Paid: The New Black Preacher 75
- 6 Before and Beyond Don Imus: On BET, Hip-Hop Culture, and Their Consequences 95
- 7 What's Wrong with Us?: The Necessary Death of American Romanticism 113
- Appendix Chronology: Development and Change in Black Leadership Communities from 1619 to the Present 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791475805
- 0791475808
- 9780791475799
- 0791475794
- OCLC:
- 185026528
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