Harris, Fredrick C.

The price of the ticket Barack Obama and the rise and decline of black politics / [electronic resource] : Fredrick C. Harris. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xviii, 210 p.) : ill., ports. - Transgressing boundaries . - Transgressing boundaries. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this book, Fred Harris contends that Obama's success has, in reality, exacted a negative price. His victory has not only utterly transformed the forms of black politics that emerged in the 1960s and which laid the foundation for his eventual ascendance, Harris claims - it has profoundly weakened them.

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Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.


African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
African American political activists--History--20th century.
African American politicians--History--20th century.


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-

E185.615 / .H288 2012

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