1st Edition

Contours of African American Politics Volume 3, Into the Future: The Demise of African American Politics?

Edited By Georgia A. Persons Copyright 2014
    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Politics and Social Change: The Demise of the African-American Ethnic Moment?Georgia A. Persons Part VII A New Structure of Ambition in Black Politics The Third Wave: Assessing the Post-Civil Rights Cohort of Black Elected LeadershipAndra Gillespie Making History, Again, So Soon? The Massachusetts Gubernatorial ElectionAngela K. Lewis Running on Race and Against Convention: Michael Steele, Kweisi Mfume, and Maryland's 2006 Senate ContestTyson D. King-Meadows Three Wrongs and Too Far Right: The Wrong Candidate, the Wrong Year, and the Wrong State: J. Kenneth Blackwell's Run for Ohio GovernorWendy G. Smooth Southern Racial Etiquette and the 2006 Tennessee Senate Race: The Racialization of Harold Ford's Deracialized CampaignRichard T. Middleton, IV and Sekou M. Franklin The Early Electoral Contests of Senator Barack Obama: A Longitudinal AnalysisHanes Walton, Jr. and Robert C. Starks Black Power in Black Presidential Bids from Jackson to ObamaKatherine Tate But I Voted for Obama: Melodrama and Post-Civil Rights, Post-Feminist Ideology in Grey's Anatomy, Crash, and Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential BidNikol Alexander-Floyd Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois: Intellectual Grandfather of Contemporary African American StudiesMack H. Jones The Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance: The Elections and Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Barack ObamaRobert C. Smith Change Is on the WayGeorgia A. Persons Epilogue: Into the Future: African American Politics in the Post-Obama EraGeorgia A. Persons

    Biography

    Georgia A. Persons