Barack Obama and African American Empowerment The Rise of Black America's New Leadership

by Marable, Manning; Clarke, Kristen

• ISBN13: 9780230620506
• ISBN10: 0230620507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Barack Obama and the African-American Empowermentexamines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States, as part of the continuum of African American political leaders. The reader also examines the evolving ideals about the roles of government and the economy in addressing the historic disadvantages experienced by many African Americans. Here, some of the nation's most influential intellectuals bring together original scholarship to look at the future of national politics and American race relations.

Author Biography

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and Public Affairs at Columbia University where he also serves as founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. 

 

Kristen Clarke is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School and a civil rights attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.  Her work on race, law and democracy appears in numerous journals, books and other publications. 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Postblack Politics and Leadership	p. 1
Background to the New Black Politics	p. 13
System Values and African American Leadership	p. 15
The Limits of Black Pragmatism: The Rise and Fall of David Dinkins, 1989-93	p. 25
City Politics and Black Protest: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville	p. 43
Toward a Pragmatic Black Politics	p. 65
On Black Leadership, Black Politics, and the U.S. Immigration Debate	p. 73
The Political Orientations of Young African Americans	p. 81
The Case for a Neo-Rainbow Electoral Strategy	p. 91
The Ethics of Colin Powell	p. 105
The Meaning of Barack Obama	p. 121
First Lady in Black: Michelle Obama and the Crisis of Race and Gender	p. 123
The Race Problematic, the Narrative of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Election of Barack Obama	p. 133
From Idol to Obama: What TV Elections Teach Us about Race, Youth, and Voting	p. 149
The 2008 Presidential Campaign and Beyond	p. 161
Race, Postblack Politics, and the Democratic Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama	p. 163
Sovereign Kinship and the President-Elect	p. 183
You May Not Get There with Me: Obama and the Black Political Establishment	p. 195
Barack Obama and the Black Electorate in Georgia: Identifying the Disenfranchised	p. 209
Barack Obama's Candidacy and the Collateral Consequences of the ôPolitics of Fearö	p. 225
The Struggle Continues: Combating Voting Discrimination in the Obama Era	p. 241
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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