What's Wrong with Obamamania?

What's Wrong with Obamamania?Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far reachingand disturbingshifts in black leadership in postCivil Rights America. Barack Obama's sudden arrival on the national scene has created a wave of excitement in American politics, a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Obamamania." In What's Wrong with Obamamania?, Ricky L. Jones places Obama's run for the presidency in the context of deep and often disturbing shifts in black leadership since the

An examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance

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Visualizing Egypt considers nineteenth-century book illustrations on Egypt and the “Orient” not merely as expressions of enduring ideology and colonial propaganda

“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers

Nuclear structure has two extreme regimes: one where the nuclear structure is collective and driven by all the protons and neutrons acting coherently

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This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons