What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination

What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination by Jones, Ricky L. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780791475805.

Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching--and disturbing--shifts in black leadership in post-Civil Rights America. Barack Obamas sudden arrival on the national scene has created a wave of excitement in American politics, a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Obamamania." In Whats Wrong with Obamamania?, Ricky L. Jones places Obamas run for the presidency in the context of deep and often disturbing shifts in black leadership since the 1960s. From Charles Hamilton Houston to Thurgood Marshall to Jesse Jackson, from prosperity preachers to megachurches, from W. E. B. Du Boiss Talented Tenth and civil rights advocates to Black Entertainment Television and hip-hop culture, Jones paints a picture of lowered expectations, cynicism, and nihilism that should give us all pause.