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The price of the ticket : Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics / Fredrick C. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Fredrick C.
- Series:
- Transgressing boundaries.
- Transgressing boundaries : studies in Black politics and Black communities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.
- Obama, Barack.
- African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
- African American political activists--History--20th century.
- African American political activists.
- African American politicians--History--20th century.
- African American politicians.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991070-7
- 0-19-025248-0
- 1-280-59568-X
- 9786613625519
- 0-19-987644-4
- OCLC:
- 793996700
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