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Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion. By Melanye T. Price

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2010

Robert Gooding-Williams
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Extract

This is a timely, engaging, and illuminating study of Black Nationalism. The book's “fundamental project,” Melanye T. Price writes, “is to systematically understand individual Black Nationalism adherence among African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era” (p. 60). Black Nationalism has a long history in African American politics, but with the demise of Jim Crow and the election of our first black president, we may reasonably wonder whether ordinary African American citizens are disposed to endorse it. Price's book is important because it addresses this question head-on, defending the thesis that a renewal of Black Nationalism remains a viable possibility in post-Obama America.

Type
Critical Dialogue
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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