What's wrong with Obamamania?
Subtitle: Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination
By: Ricky L. Jones ; with a foreword by J. Blaine Hudson.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780791475805
Subjects: Obama, Barack -- Political and social views; Obama, Barack -- Public opinion; Presidential candidates -- United States; African Americans -- Politics and government; African American leadership; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008; Political culture -- United States; Public opinion -- United States; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: This book juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching and disturbing shifts in black leadership in post–Civil Rights America. 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. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.