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This volume's prominent contributors study the Jackson campaign in a broad social and cultural context which helps to explain the campaign's strengths and weaknesses. The book's interdisciplinary approach reveals the economic, sociological, and political ramifications of the first seriously taken run for the presidency by an African American.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mary Frances Berry The Social and Political Context of the Campaign The Range and the Limits of the Campaign Politics by Lorenzo Morris The Issue Politics of the Jesse Jackson Campaign for President in 1984 by Ronald W. Walters Black Presidential Participation and the Critical Election Theory by Hanes Walton, Jr. Social and Economic Policy in Party Politics Race and the Rise and Fall of the Two-Party System by Lorenzo Morris The Economic Policy of the Jackson Candidacy by Robert S. Browne The Jesse Jackson Economic Platform of 1984: A Critique and an Alternative by Rodney Green and Finley C. Campbell Racial Issues and the Campaign's Influence The Articulation of Black Interests by Black Civil Rights, Professional and Religious Organizations by Dianne M. Pinderhughes Lessons of the Jackson Campaign: Discursive Strategies of Symbolic Control and Cultural Capitalization by Helen F. Page Foreign Policy, History, and Issues The Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Palestinian Question by David A. Coolidge, Jr. The Jesse Jackson Campaign and U.S. Foreign Policy by Elliott P. Skinner Political Mobilization, Charisma, and Coalition Building in the Campaing Building a Credible Image: The Mass Media and Black Students' Impressions of the Jesse Jackson Campaign by Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., and Larry G. Coleman Anatomy of the Tactical Miscalculation: Jesse Jackson's 1984 Attack on the Runoff Primary System by Joseph P. McCormick, II Avenues for Black Political Mobilization: The Presidential Campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson by Lorn S. Foster From Insurgency Toward Inclusion: The Jackson Campaigns of 1984 and 1988 by Robert C. Smith Index

About the Author

LORENZO MORRIS is Professor of Political Science at Howard University. He is the author of over 50 articles and 4 books, including Elusive Equality and co-author of The Coalition at the End of the Rainbow.

Reviews

?. . . provides important and original material on Jackson's 1984 campaign. And while most of its conclusions are based solely on the observations of Jackson's 1984 campaign, the originality, wealth of information, and range of opinions and issues contained in the book will ensure that it will remain useful to students, scholars, and activists interested in Jackson and his impact on the Democratic party and presidential politics, and to those researching African-American politics in the post-civil rights era, more broadly.?-National Political Science Review

." . . provides important and original material on Jackson's 1984 campaign. And while most of its conclusions are based solely on the observations of Jackson's 1984 campaign, the originality, wealth of information, and range of opinions and issues contained in the book will ensure that it will remain useful to students, scholars, and activists interested in Jackson and his impact on the Democratic party and presidential politics, and to those researching African-American politics in the post-civil rights era, more broadly."-National Political Science Review