Situational Deracialization, Harold Ford, and the 2006 Senate Race in Tennessee

Whose Black Politics?: Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 214-240

  Franklin, Sekou ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893722-20     Document Type: Chapter

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