Price of the Ticket Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics

Name: Price of the Ticket Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
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ISBN: 9780199325238

ISBN-10: 0199325235

ISBN-13: 9780199325238

Edition: 2014

Authors: Fredrick Harris

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The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible. The path to his presidency began just before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when black leaders began to discuss strategies to make the most of their new…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Fredrick C. Harris is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Something Within and Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism .