{"product_id":"we-have-no-leaders-african-americans-in-the-post-civil-rights-era-paperback","title":"We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert C. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRonald W. Walters\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an optimistic book, it concludes that the black movement has been almost wholly encapsulated into mainstream institutions, coopted, and marginalized. As a result, the author argues, African American leadership has become largely irrelevant in the development of organizations, strategies, and programs that would address the multifaceted problems of race in the post-civil rights era. Meanwhile, the core black community has become increasingly segregated, and its society, economy, culture, and institutions of governance and uplift have decayed. In exhaustive detail Smith traces this sad state of affairs to certain internal attributes of African American political culture and institutional processes, and to the structure of American politics and its economic and cultural underpinnings. Sure to be controversial, this book challenges both liberal and conservative notions of the black political struggle in the United States. It will serve as a major reference for academic study and a point of departure for political activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert C. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Leadership: A Survey of Theory and Research\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRacism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor (with Richard Seltzer) of \u003ci\u003eRace, Class, and Culture: A Study of Afro-American Mass Opinion\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter two published by SUNY Press. He has coedited two books, \u003ci\u003eUrban Black Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReflections on Black Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e, and is associate editor of the \u003ci\u003eNational Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.2 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765032841523,"sku":"9780791431368","price":75.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aG1iQytZRGlRL1JWYW1oSExZbHJzUT09.webp?v=1764608604","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/we-have-no-leaders-african-americans-in-the-post-civil-rights-era-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}