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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Ricky L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidential candidates--United States.
- Presidential candidates.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- African Americans.
- African American leadership.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- Presidents--United States--Election--2008.
- Presidents.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Obama, Barack--Political and social views.
- Obama, Barack.
- Obama, Barack--Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Jesse Jackson Didn't Give a Damn!
- A Series of Unfortunate (and Unsavory) Events
- Sorry, DuBois Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- The Witch and the Devil
- "Black Hawks" Down
- I Don't Care What Jesus Would Do; I've Got to Get Paid
- Before and Beyond Don Imus
- What's Wrong with Us?
- Chronology
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791477632
- 0791477630
- 9781435658868
- 1435658868
- OCLC:
- 237799058
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