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Description   Despite the promising candidacy of Barack Obama, black Americans are becoming ever more pessimistic in their assessment of how much has actually been achieved since the dawn of the Civil Rights era. Nearly four-fifths of blacks (compared to only one-third of whites) believe that blacks will either never or not in their lifetimes achieve racial equality in the United States. In Desperation and Hope in Black Politics, renowned political scientist Michael Dawson argues provocatively that African Americans have reason to despair at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Blacks and whites have always occupied two very different civil societies in America. But black civil society has become increasingly fractured in recent years, as the strength of voluntary associations-including churches, Masonic halls, and business groups-erodes. As a consequence, African Americans are less able than ever to compel their viewpoints onto a national agenda defined primarily by white interests. A sobering examination of the state of black politics at the advent of the twenty-first century, Desperation and Hope in Black Politics offers a clarion call to African Americans to seek political power not through the symbolic hope represented by black candidates but rather through the hard work of political organization.   Related Products... America and the World: Conversations on the Futur Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About t The Best Terrorists We Could Find: False Plots an There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Ma Our Price: $16.50 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.77 for 25 - 99 copies Add The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intell The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as For Reasons of Race and Belief: (Hardcover) Our Price: $15.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $10.80 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.40 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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