Well, you have to start somewhere. And you don't have to be comprehensive.
"What is the centre of black politics in America today" is a rather limited question. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
If the answer to the question, "What is the centre of black politics in America today?", is money --capital gain, bebe-- then the next surely concerns the so-called ingenuity of the "post-racial" individual American.
Which should "represents" nothing of race. And kinda problematizes the "intellectual debate" about nationalizing "our better history." If there were a debate. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.