Party/Politics Horizons in Black Political Thought [Hardcover]

In this fascinating treatment of party life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties.Party/Politicsreveals new dimensions to the way we think about the cultural and political sphere, both nationally and transnationally. The author draws broadly on examples from popular culture, literature, social movements, and daily life to explore an array of themes ranging from black ideologies, the demise of Black power and Third Worldism as emancipatory projects for liberation, to more contemporary issues and debates on multiculturalism and transnational forms of identity. Capturing what is often overlooked due to an emphasis on nations, on surveys, and on formal institutions, Hanchard offers an expansive, integrated framework for the study of not only black politics but of political and social theory the world over.


1. Introduction
Section I: Politics and Form
2. A Theory of Quotidian Politics
3. Ideology and Political Culture in Black
4. Between Confrontation and Acquiescence: An Ethics of Aversion
Section II: Politics in Fact and Fiction
5. Cultural Politics and Black Public Intellectuals
6. Kohlhaas/Coalhouse: Race, Foreigners and the State of Exception
Section III: Hemispheric Perspectives/Black Internationalism
7. Garnets Dictum, the Color Line and Mixed Race: Notes on Hybridity and Miscegenation
8. Conclusion: Which Community?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Hanchard offers a provocative and insightful mediation on the necessarily blurry and dynamic boundary between 'culture' and 'politics' in black life, not only in the U.S., but the whole of the African diaspora. A valuable corrective to the tendency of social scientists to conceive and study the political in narrowly truncated form. --Doug McAdam, author ofFreedom Summer

I love Michael Hanchard's intellectual suppleness; his aló'