Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Note -- Articles -- Black Power in Black Presidential Bids from Jackson to Obama -- "But, I Voted for Obama": Melodrama and Post-Civil Rights, Postfeminist Ideology in Grey's Anatomy, Crash, and Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign -- Afro-Brazilian Black Linked Fate in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil -- Symposium -- Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Intellectual Grandfather of Contemporary African American Studies -- Du Boisian Thought in Contemporary America: From Double Consciousness to Dual Marginality -- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Prime Minister of the State We Never Had -- Works in Progress -- Editors' Introduction -- Editors' Interview with Ronald Walters -- The Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance: The Elections and Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama -- Studying Changes in Black Congressional Behavior from Carter to Obama -- Aaron Henry of Mississippi: A Political Biography of a Man and a Movement for Black Empowerment, 1927-1996 -- Book Reviews -- The Practice of Expanding Boundaries in Black Politics -- Shelby F. Lewis, ed., Historical Inevitability: The Role of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans Saga -- Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers, The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America -- Robert Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America -- James W. Button, Sheila L. Croucher, and Barbara A. Rienzo, Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality: The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States -- Kathleen R. Arnold, America's New Working Class: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age -- Glen Browder, The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History