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Dr. Manning Marable is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. He is one of America's most influential historians, widely read scholars, and interpreters of the black experience.
Kristen Clarke is a civil rights attorney based in Washington, D.C. An expert on voting rights and political participation matters, she writes and comments frequently on issues concerning race, law and democracy.
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 "Politics of Fear" | 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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