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- Title
POWER, IDENTITY, AND THE LIMITS OF AGENCY.
- Authors
Brown, Mitchell
- Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the limits of "power to" and agency through an examination of the Barry administration in Washington, DC. I begin by asking why this administration, born of the civil rights movement and tremendous optimism, was unable to live up to its expectations. I provide an in-depth examination of Barry's efforts at reform, his popular appeal, and his appeal to business within the context of Washington's local political history. I find that Barry's power was constrained by a combination of structural factors, personal choices, the legacy of racism and racist exclusion, and a failed identity-deployment strategy. The findings have broader implications for the use of identity-deployment strategies for minority political leaders generally.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (D.C.); UNITED States; CIVIL rights movements; RACISM; SOCIAL marginality; MINORITY politicians; BARRY, Marion, 1936-2014
- Publication
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 2, p369
- ISSN
1742-058X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1742058X0808020X