Contours of African American Politics Volume 3, Into the Future: The Demise of African American Politics?
Coordonnateur : Persons Georgia A.
Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle for black liberation and empowerment. Hence, the study of African American politics has sought to track, codify, and analyze the struggle that has been mounted, and to understand the historic and changing political status of African Americans within American society.
The notion of a post-racial America is one that was birthed by the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. However, another reality is equally compelling: that for some time now, many African American aspirants for elective office have run against race-specific issues, putting individual desires to win office above the conventionally defined collective interests of black folk.
Clearly, the Obama presidential election crystallized a complexity of change that had been underway in America prior to his election. Indeed, did the Obama election signal the end of black politics? Does race remain a useful construct for framing the collective interests of African Americans? Volume III of Contours of African American Politics examines all of these questions in an effort to understand the more poignant question of the future of that which we have known as black politics.
Date de parution : 01-2014
17.8x25.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2017
17.8x25.4 cm
Thème de Contours of African American Politics :
Mots-clés :
Black Candidates; black; Black Politics; candidates; Black Voters; voters; African American Politics; republican; Young Man; lieutenant; Statewide Office; governor; Black Democrats; kweisi; Illinois Senator Barack Obama; mfume; Gay Marriage; white; Exit Poll; elected; African American Candidate; Georgia A; Persons; White Power Structure; Andra Gillespie; Senate Races; Angela K; Lewis; Frey 2011a; Tyson D; King-Meadows; Nashville; Wendy G; Smooth; Nashville Davidson County; Richard T; Middleton IV; Kweisi Mfume; Sekou M; Franklin; Young Black Politicians; Hanes Walton; Post-feminist Ideology; Robert C; Starks; Postfeminist Ideology; Katherine Tate; Senator Obama; Nikol Alexander Floyd; General Election Contests; Mack H; Jones; Black Studies Movement; Robert C; Smith; Crossover Appeal; Frey 2011b