CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS AND RUPTURES -- REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS: LESSONS FROM THE FRENCH AND CUBAN REVOLUTIONS -- NEW CONCEPT OF SHARED HUMANITY -- UBUNTU -- ELEMENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT -- BEYOND VANGUARDISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CLASSICAL MUSIC MEETS JAZZ -- REPARATIONS AND REVOLUTION -- NEW MILITANTS AND SITES OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- 2. THE POLITICAL TRAINING OF BARACK OBAMA -- UBUNTU AND NON-RACIAL DEMOCRACY -- LESSONS IN UBUNTU -- TOOTS AND THE DIGNITY OF WORK -- TRAINING AS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN CHICAGO -- SEARCHING FOR LIFE PURPOSE AND HEALING IN KENYA -- REDEMPTION -- MICHELLE ROBINSON: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL -- CONCLUSION -- 3. CONFRONTING RACISM AND SEXISM IN US POLITICS -- PHASE I: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND "THREE-FIFTHS OF A HUMAN" -- PHASE II: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY -- PHASE III: AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZING AND THE HARRIET TUBMAN PRINCIPLES -- RECONSTRUCTION AND THE THIRD PHASE -- COUNTER-REVOLUTION -- BENJAMIN TILLMAN, SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE, AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF RACISM -- LONG-TERM LEGACIES OF THE THIRD PHASE -- EUGENICS AND THE IDEOLOGICAL VICTORY OF THE SOUTH -- EUGENICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY -- CONCLUSION: DEMOCRATIZATION AS A PROCESS -- RACISM AND THE OLD LEFT -- BEYOND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT -- 4. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING CONFRONTS THE MACHINE -- REVOLUTIONS BY ORDINARY PEOPLE - THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- OBAMA'S LEARNING FROM THE ELLA BAKER PRINCIPLES -- BEYOND VANGUARDISM -- THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE RISE OF THE OBAMA PHENOMENON -- THE ATTEMPTED INTERVENTION OF JESSE JACKSON -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE HIERARCHY OF POWER -- LEADERISM, VANGUARDISM, AND THE PARTY BOSS -- TECHNOCRATS, BOSSES, AND POLITICAL PATRONAGE -- FROM BOSSES TO POLITICAL CONSULTANTS.

THE CLINTONS INHERIT THE PARTY MACHINERY -- CONCLUSION -- 5. FRACTAL WISDOM AND OPTIMISM IN THE PRIMARY CAMPAIGN OF 2008 -- CAMPAIGNING AS A HUMAN BEING, NOT A BLACK CANDIDATE -- HOPE AND CHANGE -- SCALING, SELF-SIMILARITY, AND RECURSION IN THE CAMPAIGN -- UBUNTU MEETS UBUNTU -- PROVING GROUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA -- BUILDING A NATIONAL PRESENCE AND BOTTOM-UP FUNDRAISING -- OBAMA'S AMAZING MONEY MACHINE -- THE STRUGGLES IN THE PRIMARIES -- THE CENTRALITY OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS -- THE INTERVENTION OF THE YOUTH VOTE AND THE GRASSROOTS -- THE IOWA CAUCUS -- THE CENTRALITY OF RACISM IN US POLITICS -- INTERNAL COLLAPSE OF THE VAST CLINTON APPARATUS -- CONCLUSION -- 6. BETWEEN THE PAST AND THEFUTURE: THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION -- BURDENS OF THE PAST -- NEW AND OLD FORCES AT THE CONVENTION -- SHADOWS OF THE PAST AND THE DENVER SETTING -- THE PROMISE OF A GREEN CONVENTION -- T. BOONE PICKENS AND FORGIVENESS -- INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS IN DENVER -- THE CLINTON BRIGADE IN DENVER -- MICHELLE OBAMA AND THE CAUCUSES -- THE LATINO/HISPANIC CAUCUS AT THE CONVENTION -- WHO ARE THE LATINOS? -- ROLL CALL AND NOMINATION -- ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AND MARKETING THE CANDIDATE -- CONCLUSION -- 7. GROUND OPERATION FOR VICTORY: CHALLENGING THE RUTHLESSNESS OF THE WOUNDED CORPORATE BANKERS -- THE MOMENT OF SEPTEMBER -- RUTHLESSNESS AND RECKLESSNESS -- THE WORLD OF DERIVATIVES, POLITICS, AND RUTHLESSNESS -- FINANCIALIZATION AS ECONOMIC TERRORISM -- HENRY PAULSON AND THE DRAMA OF THE MOMENT OF SEPTEMBER -- ELEMENTS OF THE COUP -- SPEECHLESS AND POLITICS -- OBAMA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN -- THE LEGACIES OF JESSE HELMS IN NORTH CAROLINA -- RESPECT, EMPOWER, INCLUDE - OBSERVING THE GROUND OPERATION AT FIRST HAND -- YOUTH ACTIVISTS AND THE WALL OF HOPE -- TOLERANCE AND THE NETWORKS -- ROWAN COUNTY AND SALISBURY TOWN -- MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND CROSSING INTO SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE NERVE CENTER IN RALEIGH-DURHAM -- A DIVIDED MILITARY -- CONCLUSION -- 8. BEYOND MESSIAHS: NETWORKS FOR PEACE AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TRAP OF MESSIANISM AND MILITARISM -- LIBERALISM, MISSIONISM, AND THE LONG WAR -- WAR AS PEACE -- WOULD OBAMA END UP LIKE TOUSSAINT? -- NETWORKING AND SOLIDARITY -- THE PEACE, ANTI-RACIST, AND REPARATIONS NODES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- PEACE AND THE MEANING OF WORK -- REVOLUTION AND THE TIPPING POINT -- PEACE AND THE INHERITANCE OF BLACK LIBERATION -- PROGRESSIVE WOMEN AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT -- BUILDING A NEW DEMOCRACY -- CONCLUSION -- 9. UBUNTU AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY REVOLUTION -- THE SETTING AND THE CHALLENGES -- UBUNTU, QUANTUM POLITICS, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, A FRACTAL OUTLOOK, AND QUANTUM LEAPS -- UBUNTU, SELF-ORGANIZATION, AND SELF-MOBILIZATION -- ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES -- UBUNTU, SELF-ORGANIZATION, AND NEW LEADERSHIP -- NEW LEADERSHIP AND OPTIMISM IN SOCIETY -- OPTIMISM AS A POLITICAL ACT -- NOTES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX.