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The urban voter group conflict and mayoral voting behavior in American cities / by Kaufmann, Karen M., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a theory of local voting behavior -- Group interest theory and local elections -- From rioting to Watergate: Los Angeles, 1969 and 1973 -- Tough enough to turn L.A. around :Los Angeles, 1973 to 1993 -- Vote your hopes, not your fears : New York, 1965 to 1993 -- Racial conflict and retrospective voting -- Down but not out : A liberal revival in 2001 -- Changing urban politics in the new millennium.…”
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Race appeal how candidates invoke race in U.S. political campaigns / by McIlwain, Charlton D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Producing race appeal : the political ads of white and minority candidates -- The advantages and disadvantages of deploying racist appeals among black and white voters -- Neither black nor white : the fruitless appeal to racial authenticity -- Competing novelties : how newspapers frame the election campaigns of Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans -- Racializing immigration policy : issue ads in the 2006 election -- Harold Ford Jr., Mel Martinez, and Artur Davis : case studies in racially framed news -- Barack Obama, race-based appeals, and the 2008 presidential election.…”
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America, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence / by Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the two faces of America: the ideal America as deception and as protest -- 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness -- 2. …”
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Obama, Clinton, Palin making history in election 2008 /

Table of Contents: “…Historical precedents, or How election 2008 began before the Civil War -- pt. III. …”
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The Obama phenomenon toward a multiracial democracy /

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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The audacity of races and genders a personal and global story of the Obama election / by Eisenstein, Zillah R.

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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The Obama effect multidisciplinary renderings of the 2008 campaign /

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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The end of race? Obama, 2008, and racial politics in America / by Kinder, Donald R.

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American political success, 1966-2008 / by Nordin, Dennis S. (Dennis Sven), 1942-

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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New race politics in America understanding minority and immigrant politics /

Subjects: “…Elections United States.…”
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The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the solid South, 1932-1968 by Frederickson, Kari A.

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 1948.…”
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Emancipation betrayed the hidden history of Black organizing and white violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the bloody election of 1920 / by Ortiz, Paul, 1964-

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The Colfax massacre the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction / by Keith, LeeAnna

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What's wrong with Obamamania? Black America, Black leadership, and the death of political imagination / by Jones, Ricky L.

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008.…”
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The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…The Clash of Two Black Americas -- Black Political Entrepreneurship, 21st Century Style : The Theory of Elite Displacement -- Prelude : The Rise of Cory Booker -- Losing : The 2002 Mayoral Election -- pt. 2. It's Not Easy Being Elite : Governing Challenges in Post Racial Black America -- Winning : The 2006 Election -- Policy Is Politics -- Perception Is Reality : Judging Cory Booker -- The Politics of Perception : Cory Booker in Local and State Affairs -- 2010 : Electoral Politics Revisited -- Joshua, Esther and Uncle Julius : Black Political Entrepreneurs and the Future of Black Politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Methodological Notes -- Appendix B: List of Interviewees.…”
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Communication realities in a "post-racial" society what the U.S. public really thinks about Barack Obama / by Orbe, Mark P.

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 2008 Public opinion.…”
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Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Old vinegar in a new bottle: vote denial in the 2000 presidential election and beyond / Charles L. Zelden -- George W. …”
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Making Minnesota liberal civil rights and the transformation of the Democratic Party / by Delton, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Alice), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The rise and fall of the Farmer-Labor Party -- The new two-party liberalism -- Antiracism and the politics of unity -- The Black communities in Minnesota -- An independent Black interest group -- Civil rights in local politics -- Civil rights in party politics -- The 1948 election and the triumph of the Democratic political order -- Civil rights and the fate of postwar liberalism.…”
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Invisible activists women of the Louisiana NAACP and the struggle for civil rights, 1915-1945 / by Sartain, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Weapons of the utmost value : NAACP organizational history, 1909-1945 -- The sympathy of women : Black women's involvement in Louisiana civil rights up to 1920 -- Destined to bring splendid results : NAACP women's auxiliaries and networks, 1921-1945 -- God's valiant minority : teachers and civil rights -- Leaders who persevere : elected officials -- We are but Americans : Miss Georgia M. …”
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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / by Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…What kept abolition alive in Boston? -- The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 and Boston's upper class -- Booker T. …”
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