Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination /
Ricky L. Jones ; with a foreword by J. Blaine Hudson
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
c2008
xiv, 144 p. ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
A series of unfortunate (and unsavory) events : paving the way for "Obamamania" -- Sorry, DuBois doesn't live here anymore : the soulessness of the new talented tenth -- The witch and the devil : American political philosophy and black suffering -- "Black Hawks" down : America's war on terror and the rise of Bushism -- I don't care what Jesus would do, I've got to get paid : the new black preacher -- Before and beyond Don Imus : on BET, hip-hop culture, and their consequences -- What's wrong with us? : the necessary death of American romanticism