Barack Obama and Twenty-First Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA

Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Revolutionary Moments and Ruptures 2. The Political Training of Barack Obama 3 Confronting Racism and Sexism in US Politics 4. Grassroots Organizing Confronts the Machine 5. Fractal Wisdom and Optimism in the Primary Campaign of 2008 6. Between the Past and the Future: The Democratic National Convention 7. Ground Operation for Victory: Challenging the Ruthlessness of the Wounded Corporate Bankers 8 Beyond Messiahs: Networks for Peace and Transformation in the 21st Century 9. Ubuntu and 21st Century Revolution Notes Index

Horace G. Campbell teaches at Syracuse University in New York. He has been involved in the peace and justice movements for decades. His most important book, Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, is going through its seventh edition. He is also the author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation.

This book helps us recognise that we are living in a revolutionary moment. ... We need to develop new consciousness ... and become active in new political sites where people are creating a participatory democracy in struggles for life, education, health and community. -- Grace Lee Boggs is a Chinese-American author, anti-racism activist and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. She eventually went off in her own political direction in the 1960s with her husband of some forty years, James Boggs, until his death in 1993. Barack Obama's presidency provides a rare opening for change. Whether we make use of it as we should is up to us. ... Campbell's book is a bracing reminder of all the threads of history woven into this extraordinary moment, a warning about the military and financial forces trying to keep things as they are, and an inspiration to work for the very different world that could be within our grasp. -- Adam Hochschild is an American writer and journalist. He worked as a writer and editor for the left-wing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones. Among his many books is King Leopold's Gjost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition, 2006), His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages Scholar-activist Horace Campbell has given us a provocative new perspective on the United States' first Black president. The book is a 'must read' for those interested in Black American and American politics and the shifting global realities of the 21st century. It is sure to spark animated debate. -- Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, University of Illinois-Chicago Horace Campbell probes the