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The price of the ticket [electronic resource] : Barack Obama and the rise and decline of black politics / Fredrick C. Harris.
Series: Transgressing boundaries: Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 210 p.) : ill., ports.ISBN: 9780190252489 (ebook) :.Subject(s): 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 | Obama, Barack -- Relations with African Americans | United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-Additional Physical Form: Print version 9780199739677DDC classification: 323.1196073 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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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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.
Description based on print version record.