Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA Black by Horace Campbell.

This event is part of the Black Authors/New Books Series hosted by the Africana Studies and Research Center.

Horace G. Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse New York. He has published widely and is the author of Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA by Pluto Books. He is also the author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation, and Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st Century. His most famous book, Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is going through its eight printing. He has a weekly Pan African Postcard column on Pambazuka news. At Syracuse University, he is the Director of the Africa Initiative and he works in the wider Syracuse Community as an activist for peace. He is a board member of the Syracuse Peace Council. He is also the President of the Pan African Community of Central New York PACCNY.