Format:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849645577
Content:
An essential guide to the new political moment indicated by the new networks created in Barack Obama's revolutionary election campaign.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS AND RUPTURES -- REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS: LESSONS FROM THE FRENCH AND CUBAN REVOLUTIONS -- NEW CONCEPT OF SHARED HUMANITY -- UBUNTU -- ELEMENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT -- BEYOND VANGUARDISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CLASSICAL MUSIC MEETS JAZZ -- REPARATIONS AND REVOLUTION -- NEW MILITANTS AND SITES OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- 2. THE POLITICAL TRAINING OF BARACK OBAMA -- UBUNTU AND NON-RACIAL DEMOCRACY -- LESSONS IN UBUNTU -- TOOTS AND THE DIGNITY OF WORK -- TRAINING AS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN CHICAGO -- SEARCHING FOR LIFE PURPOSE AND HEALING IN KENYA -- REDEMPTION -- MICHELLE ROBINSON: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL -- CONCLUSION -- 3. CONFRONTING RACISM AND SEXISM IN US POLITICS -- PHASE I: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND "THREE-FIFTHS OF A HUMAN" -- PHASE II: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY -- PHASE III: AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZING AND THE HARRIET TUBMAN PRINCIPLES -- RECONSTRUCTION AND THE THIRD PHASE -- COUNTER-REVOLUTION -- BENJAMIN TILLMAN, SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE, AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF RACISM -- LONG-TERM LEGACIES OF THE THIRD PHASE -- EUGENICS AND THE IDEOLOGICAL VICTORY OF THE SOUTH -- EUGENICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY -- CONCLUSION: DEMOCRATIZATION AS A PROCESS -- RACISM AND THE OLD LEFT -- BEYOND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT -- 4. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING CONFRONTS THE MACHINE -- REVOLUTIONS BY ORDINARY PEOPLE - THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- OBAMA'S LEARNING FROM THE ELLA BAKER PRINCIPLES -- BEYOND VANGUARDISM -- THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE RISE OF THE OBAMA PHENOMENON -- THE ATTEMPTED INTERVENTION OF JESSE JACKSON -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE HIERARCHY OF POWER -- LEADERISM, VANGUARDISM, AND THE PARTY BOSS -- TECHNOCRATS, BOSSES, AND POLITICAL PATRONAGE -- FROM BOSSES TO POLITICAL CONSULTANTS.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745330075
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745330075
Language:
English
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