Examines black voters’ relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America using interviews with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, empirical data, news accounts, academic literature and case law.
Table of Content
PART I: BEFORE OBAMA Black Politics: Which Way Is Left? Race and Money in Politics Black Tea: Black Conservatives and the Rhetoric of Social Conservatism Contradictions in a ‘Latino Moment’: Latinos as Less Black? PART II: BARACK OBAMA AND THE TRIUMPH OF SYMBOLISM Triangulation 101: The Old Conceives the New The New Triangulation: Barack Obama and Post-Racialism A Thousand Obamas?: Race and Electoral Ambition Do Blacks Need a Black President?: Of Movements, Not Men
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Terry Smith is a Distinguished Research Professor at De Pauw College of Law.
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