Barack Obama and African American empowerment : the rise of Black America's new leadership / / edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke.

• Superior document: The critical black studies series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.; Clarke, Kristen.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Black studies series.
• Physical Description: vi, 269 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

System values and African American leadership / Robert C. Smith -- The limits of Black pragmatism: the rise and fall of David Dinkins, 1989-1993 / Ryan Reft -- City politics and Black protest: the economic transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville / Derek S. Hyra -- Toward a pragmatic Black politics / Fredrick Harris -- On Black leadership, Black politics, and the US immigration debate / Mark Sawyer -- The political orientations of young African Americans / David A. Bositis -- The case for a neo-rainbow electoral strategy / Danny Glover and Bill Fletcher, Jr. -- The ethics of Colin Powell / Grant Farred -- First Lady in black: Michelle Obama and the crisis of race and gender / Gerald Horne and Malaika Horne-Wells -- The race problematic, the narrative of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the election of Barack Obama / Rickey Hill -- From Idol to Obama: what TV elections teach us about race, youth, and voting / Sherrilyn Ifill -- Race, postblack politics, and the democratic presidential candidacy of Barack Obama / Carly Fraser -- Sovereign kinship and the president-elect / Joy James -- You may not get there with me: Obama and the Black political establishment / Kareem Crayton -- Barack Obama and the Black electorate in Georgia: identifying the disenfranchised / Keesha M. Middlemass -- Barack Obama's candidacy and the collateral consequences of the politics of fear / Gregory S. Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- The struggle continues: combating voting discrimination in the Obama era / Kristen Clarke.