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The New Black Politician - Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (Paperback)
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The New Black Politician - Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (Paperback)
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Explores young black politicians' pursuit of diverse constituencies
At the beginning of the 21st-century, a vanguard of young, affluent
black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations
of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which
featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger
Cory Booker and the more established black incumbent Sharpe James,
was one of a series of contests in which young, well-educated,
moderate black politicians challenged civil rights veterans for
power. In The New Black Politician, Andra Gillespie uses Newark as
a case study to explain the breakdown of racial unity in black
politics, describing how black political entrepreneurs build the
political alliances that allow them to be more diversely
established with the electorate. Based on rich ethnographic data
from six years of intense and ongoing research, Gillespie shows
that while both poor and affluent blacks pay lip service to racial
cohesion and to continuing the goals of the Civil Rights Movement,
the reality is that both groups harbor different visions of how to
achieve those goals and what those goals will look like once
achieved. This, she argues, leads to class conflict and a very
public breakdown in black political unity, providing further
evidence of the futility of identifying a single cadre of
leadership for black communities. Full of provocative interviews
with many of the key players in Newark, including Cory Booker
himself, this book provides an on the ground understanding of
contemporary Black and mayoral politics.
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