An edition of What's wrong with Obamamania? (2008)
What's wrong with Obamamania?
Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination
By Ricky L. Jones
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
eng
Pages
144
Description:
This book juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching and disturbing shifts in black leadership in post–Civil Rights America. 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. - Publisher.
subjects: African American leadership, African Americans, Election, Political and social views, Political aspects, Political culture, Politics and government, Presidential candidates, Presidents, Public opinion, Race relations, Social conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Obama, barack, 1961-, African americans, politics and government, Leadership, African americans, social conditions, Presidents, united states, election, 2008, Public opinion, united states, United states, race relations, African American Studies / Political Science
People: Barack Obama
Places: United States