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EBOOK Price of the Ticket:Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199910700
EAN: E37B026BEB
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Stron: 232
Data wydania: 2012
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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 black leaders began to discuss strategies to make the        most of their new access to the ballot. Some argued that black voters should        organize into a cohesive, independent bloc; others urged a more race-neutral        approach, working together with other racial minorities as well as like-minded        whites. This has been the fundamental divide within black politics ever since. At        first, the gap did not seem serious. But the post-civil-rights era has accelerated a        shift towards race-neutral politics. Obama made a point of distancing himself from        older race-conscious black leaders, such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson--even        though, as Harris shows, he owes much to Jackson's earlier campaigns for the White        House. Unquestionably Obama's approach won support among whites, but Harris finds        the results troublesome. The social problems targeted by an earlier generation of        black politicians--racial disparities in income and education, stratospheric        incarceration and unemployment rates, rampant HIV in black communities--all persist,        yet Obama's election, ironically, marginalized them. Meanwhile, the civil-rights        movement's militancy is fading from memory.Written by one of America's leading        scholars of race and politics, The Price of the Ticket will reshape our        understanding of the rise of Barack Obama and the decline of a politics dedicated to        challenging racial inequality head on.

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