The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama And Rise And Decline Of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) - Softcover

Harris, Fredrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199325235 ISBN 13: 9780199325238

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2014

Synopsis

A leading scholar of race and politics reveals how the election of Barack Obama actually marginalized the movement that made his victory possible

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About the Author

Fredrick C. Harris is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the triple award winner of the book Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism and the co-author of Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994, which received the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2007 Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. He has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and is a 2012 recipient of the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award at Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199325235
• ISBN 13: 9780199325238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240