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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.

Author

Ricky L. Jones

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791475799

Subjects

Political Science, Science, History

Rating

3.38 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14