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A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America
Leaders of the New School
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2016
Summary
A theoretical examination of the concepts of the citizen, citizenship, and leadership, A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America: Leaders of the New School proposes to develop a prototype or model of effective Black leadership. Furthermore, it examines “citizenship habits” of the Black community based on their economic standing, educational attainment, participation in the criminal justice system, and health and family structure. It tracks data in these four categories from 1970 to today, measuring effective leadership by the improvement or decline in the majority of African Americans standing in these four categories. This book concludes that African Americans have negative perceptions of themselves as U.S. citizens, which thus produce “bad citizenship habits.” Additionally, ineffective Black leaders since the Civil Rights era have been unwilling to demonstrate the purpose and significance of service, particularly to the poor and disadvantaged members of the Black community. Contemporary Black leaders (post–Civil Rights Era) have focused primarily on self-promotion, careerism, and middle-class interests. A new type of leader is needed, one that stresses unity and reinforces commitment to the group as a whole by establishing new institutions that introduce community-building.
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Edition
1/2016
Copyright Year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9790-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9791-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
177
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Constructing Black Citizenship and the Second-Class Citizen No access Pages 1 - 36
Chapter Two: On the Habits of Citizenship No access Pages 37 - 62
Chapter Three: On Bad Citizens, Bad Habits, and Bad Leadership No access Pages 63 - 96
Chapter Four: On The Failures of Black Leadership No access Pages 97 - 116
Chapter Five: On Black Leadership No access Pages 117 - 154
