Author : Ricky L. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791477632
What's Wrong with Obamamania? by Ricky L. Jones Pdf
Barack Obama's sudden arrival on the national scene has created a wave of excitement in American politics, a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Obamamania." 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. Du Bois'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.