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Response to Daniel Q. Gillion’s review of The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race
The Race Whisperer and Governing with Words are engaged in the same intellectual project of elucidating the ways in which presidents use the bully pulpit to shape, manage, and persuade the public and other political actors to adopt their racial perspective and resulting policies. Both projects were completed in the waning days of the Obama administration and as Trump's ascendancy began. As a result, these projects have taken on increased significance as political scientists attempt to understand yet another shift from national hope to bigoted hysteria. It is a familiar reversal of fortunes for Civil Rights advocates and race scholars who see this shift as reminiscent of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, or the 1960s Civil Rights movement and the rise of the Far Right.
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Dreaming Blackness
Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their social and political worlds. In Dreaming Blackness, Melanye T. Price explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of today's black political agenda. She argues that Black Nationalism continues to enjoy moderate levels of support by most black citizens but has a more difficult time gaining a larger stronghold because of increasing diversity among blacks and a growing emphasis on individualism over collective struggle. She shows that black interests are a dynamic negotiation among various interested groups and suggests that those differences are not just important for the \"black agenda\" but also for how African Americans think and dialogue about black political questions daily.Using a mix of everyday talk and impressive statistical data to explain contemporary black opinions, Price highlights the ways in which Black Nationalism works in a \"post-racial\" society. Ultimately, Price offers a multilayered portrait of African American political opinions, providing a new understanding of race specific ideological views and their impact on African Americans, persuasively illustrating that Black Nationalism is an ideology that scholars and politicians should not dismiss.
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Critical Dialogue
A discussion of Robert Gooding-Williams' book, \"In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America.\". Adapted from the source document. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. An electronic version of this article can be accessed via the internet at http://journals.cambridge.org
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In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America. By Robert Gooding-Williams
In this book, Robert Gooding-Williams uses the seminal work of W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks (1903) to outline Du Bois' dominant influence in defining the boundaries of black politics. Du Bois' statement about the color line, still quoted more than a century after its publication, is just one example of the enduring impact of Souls and other works on the ways in which black politics scholars conceptualize, measure, and make prescriptions for black political progress. However, his import as a dominant voice in black political thought belies the fact that there was ideological and fervent opposition to his view concerning how blacks could overcome racial oppression. Unlike Du Bois, however, many of those opponents are less known or simply ignored by contemporary black scholars.
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