TY - BOOK AU - Harris,Fredrick C. TI - The price of the ticket: Barack Obama and the rise and decline of black politics T2 - Transgressing boundaries SN - 9780190252489 (ebook) : AV - E185.615 .H288 2012 U1 - 323.1196073 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Obama, Barack KW - African Americans KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - African American political activists KW - History KW - African American politicians KW - United States KW - 1945-1989 KW - 1989- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199739677.001.0001 ER -