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What's wrong with Obamamania? : Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination /
"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 megachurche...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. DuBois'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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 144 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435658868 1435658868 0791475794 9780791475799 0791475808 9780791475805 0791477630 9780791477632 |