Ricky L. Jones

What's Wrong with Obamamania? (eBook, ePUB)

Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791477632
• Artikelnr.: 60491155

Autorenporträt

Ricky L. Jones is Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville and the author of Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities, also published by SUNY Press.