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"The Radical Imagination of Black Women: Ambition, Politics and Power explores how elite Black women decide to seek political office. Despite their marginalized existence Black women engage in a robust political participation that includes seeking elected office. Utilizing interviews of Black women who currently or have served in office and focus group data of Black women, the manuscript bridges the literatures of ambition theory and marginalization through a theory I refer to a "ambition on the margins". Black women's resistance to marginalization informs us about the conditions that shape Black women and their political socialization, while ambition theory helps us understand what they do in response to marginalization. The socialization process fosters the decision-making process of Black women. This framework moves the extant literature beyond the premise that the political ambition of Black women is less than White women or men. Political science's approach to ambition negates and disregards mechanisms beyond voting that Black women often engage in such as doing political work through community and civic organizations. That data provided from interviews reveal the complex dynamics that contribute to the nuanced process that Black women emerge as candidates and engage as politicians"--

DEDICATORY PREFACE INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE : IMAGINED HISTORY AND CONTEMPORANEOUS -- -- POLITICAL BEHAVIOR -- -ESSAY 1- -- RECOVERING AND INVOKING AN IDEALIZED ISLAMIC PAST -- Problems and Approaches to Competing Narratives and Historical Memories -- -ESSAY 2- -- MYTHS OF MARTYRDOM AND REBELLION -- Recalling Muslim Self Sacrifice and Tribal Virtues of Manliness and Honor -- -ESSAY 3- -- MARTYRDOM VERSUS LOW PROFILE POLITICS -- Interpreting the Past for Alternative Paths toward Regime Change and Political Legitimacy -- -ESSAY 4- -- 'BEING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY' -- The Concept and Praxis of a Proper Islamic Revolution -- PART TWO: IDENTITY POLITICS AND NATION BUILDING -- IN THE MODERN NEAR EAST -- -ESSAY 5- -- FORGING NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE MODERN ARAB NATION STATE -- Inventing Legacies of Near and Distant Histories -- -ESSAY 6- -- THE HOLY LAND, CANAAN, AND ARABIA: THE QUEST FOR ARAB POLITY -- Inventing an Ancient Past in Response to Zionism -- -- -ESSAY 7- -- THE USES AND MISUSES OF MODERN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP -- Academic Politics and National Identity: Egypt, Israel, and Palestine

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