Barack Obama and African American Empowerment

1. Introduction Racializing Obama
Manning Marable

Part I. Background to the New Black Politics

2. System Values and African American Leadership
Robert C. Smith

3. The Limits of Black Pragmatism the Rise and Fall of David Dinkins, 1989–93
Ryan Reft

4. City Politics And Black Protest
Derek S. Hyra

5. Toward a Pragmatic Black Politics
Fredrick Harris

6. On Black Leadership, Black Politics, and the U.S. Immigration Debate
Mark Sawyer

7. The Political Orientations of Young African Americans
David A. Bositis

8. The Case for a Neo-Rainbow Electoral Strategy
Danny Glover, Bill Fletcher

9. The Ethics of Colin Powell
Grant Farred

Part II. The Meaning of Barack Obama

10. First Lady in Black
Gerald Horne, Malaika Horne-Wells

11. The Race Problematic, the Narrative of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Election of Barack Obama
Rickey Hill

12. From Idol to Obama
Sherrilyn Ifill

Part III. The 2008 Presidential Campaign and Beyond

13. Race, Postblack Politics, and the Democratic Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama
Carly Fraser

14. Sovereign Kinship and the President-Elect
Joy James

15. You May Not Get There with me
Kareem Crayton

16. Barack Obama and the Black Electorate In Georgia
Keesha M. Middlemass

17. Barack Obama’s Candidacy and the Collateral Consequences of the “Politics of Fear”
Gregory S. Parks, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

18. The Struggle Continues
Kristen Clarke

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Political Science, Electoral Politics, African American Culture