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Barack Obama, post-racialism, and the new politics of triangulation

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Barack Obama, post-racialism, and the new politics of triangulation/ Terry Smith.
Author:	Smith, Terry,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 220 p.)
Subject:	African Americans - Politics and government - 21st century. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230372016
ISBN:	9780230372016 (electronic bk.)

Barack Obama, post-racialism, and the new politics of triangulation
Smith, Terry,1964-

Barack Obama, post-racialism, and the new politics of triangulation[electronic resource] /Terry Smith. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (x, 220 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black politics : which way is left? -- Race and money in politics -- Black tea : Black conservatives and the rhetoric of social conservatism -- Contradictions in a "Latino moment" : Latinos as less Black? -- Triangulation 101 : the old conceives the new -- The new politics of triangulation : Obama and post-racialism -- A thousand Obamas : black electoral ambition and accountability to black voters -- Do African Americans need a Black President? : of movements, not men.

Barack Obama, Post-Racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America. Using interviews with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, empirical data, news accounts, academic literature and case law, Professor Terry Smith argues that the price of black electoral success outside of traditional majority-minority settings has become the triangulation of the post-racial black politician's African-American constituency. The book is broad-ranging in its examination of how black politics has become so susceptible to marginalization even in a nation governed by its first black president. Among other contributing factors, the book examines how money in politics curtails black voter choice and autonomy, the attempt by black conservatives to fracture black voter cohesion, and the tenuous alliance of Latino and black voters. It then turns its attention to the electoral calibration that post-racial black politicians such as Obama must perform between identifying with black-centric concerns and retaining the support of white voters who are averse to race talk, even when it is in the name of racial equality. While observing that the balance struck by Obama has at times amounted to the triangulation of black voters, the author ultimately observes that black voters are sophisticated enough to channel disappointment into a redoubling of their engagement with the political process to demand that it work in their interests.

ISBN: 9780230372016 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613844798

Source: 566565Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Obama, Barack
--Pictorial works.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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African Americans
--Politics and government--21st century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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United States
--DefensesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E185.615 / .S5838 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 973.932092

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