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• W638196758 abstract "We Did? From King's Dream to Obama's Promise. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. (Lexington: University Press Kentucky, c. 2009. Pp. [xxii], 281. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2560-2.) Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Power to Barack Obama. By Peniel E. Joseph. (New York: BasicCivitas Books, c. 2010. Pp. [vi], 277. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-465-01366-1.) The Preacher and the_Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America. By Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers. (Charlottesville and London: University Virginia Press, 2009. Pp. [viii], 159. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-2886-9.) These three books constitute part an emerging body scholarship on the rich legacy U.S. black leadership and President Barack Obama. They trace Obama's presidency to various black protest traditions while employing his celebrated books in interesting and divergent ways. For many, Obama's ability to transcend America's sordid racial past by emphasizing universal themes hope that inspired a cross section people has become a hallmark his successful 2008 presidential campaign. However, these works situate the president's candidacy in a historical context where race takes center stage. Cynthia Griggs Fleming chronicles the personal stories over forty black leaders, including elected representatives, civil rights leaders, educators, and ministers, to highlight the multilayered roots the arduous struggle racial progress since the late nineteenth century. Considering two crucial black leadership milestones--King's dream and Obama's promise, Fleming argues, it is easy to lose sight the continuing importance a variety black leaders who struggle to embrace new opportunities even as they face new obstacles (p. 5). Her extensive use oral interviews offers an array insightful anecdotes that capture the diverse views African American leaders. The first five chapters the book cover a variety critical issues affecting black leadership ranging from the importance core values like education and community and pre- and post--civil rights activism to the political aspirations and setbacks following the Voting Rights Act 1965. Chapter 2, Black Leadership in Historical Perspective not only examines the philosophy traditional black figures such as Booker T. Washington but also highlights the experiences such distinguished figures as civil rights attorney Charles Jones, Georgia congressman John Lewis, and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Texas. These less familiar but important leaders disclose how family members, beauticians, and teachers significantly influenced their political development. The last four chapters contour the book's most compelling points about economic challenges, identity, and culture in a postsegregation society--examining black leaders' efforts to address the profound impact globalization and corporate America on an ostensibly disengaged black youth. Despite Obama's victory and Yes We Can refrain, which renewed a sense optimism among black Americans reminiscent the so-called Martin Luther Jr. era, Fleming details the myriad problems that continue to disproportionately affect African Americans. Although Fleming provides a mosaic voices to illuminate the complexity black leadership, she frequently invokes the phrase post-King or King era without quotation marks, to explain the rise cynicism among African Americans following his assassination and the loss of black America's innocence, thus using the civil rights leader as a marker to gauge the direction African American leadership (pp. 15, 64, 68). To be sure, the power King's legacy as an iconic figure is indisputable, but inadvertently deifying him can present a nostalgic past and silence other influential voices while obscuring the range post-World War II black freedom struggles that Peniel E. Joseph addresses head-on. Joseph's well-researched and cogently argued book builds on his groundbreaking new Black Power Studies, which offers an alternative view postwar America by placing Power's eclectic and transformative, albeit deeply misunderstood, movement on par with the much heralded civil rights struggle. …" @default.
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