Contours of African American Politics: Volume 1, Race and Representation in American Politics

ISBN-13: 9781412847759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 338 str.

Georgia A. Persons

Opis

Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle for black liberation and empowerment. Hence, the study of African American politics has sought to track, codify, and analyze the struggle that has been mounted, and to understand the historic and changing political status of African Americans within American society. This two-volume set presents a selection of scholarship on African American politics as it appeared in The National Political Science Review from its initial launch in 1989 to the spring of 2009. Represented are contributions from some of the leading scholars of African American politics, who have helped to establish and sustain the field. The volumes are organized around themes that derive from the unfolding real-life drama of African American politics and its subsequent scholarly treatment. The result is a window into the political efforts that meld the historically disparate strands of black political expressions into a reconstructed and strategically nimble, electoral-based mass mobilization necessary for optimizing the impact of the African American vote. Sections in the volumes also chronicle the evolution of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists as a professional organization. The two volumes illuminate a pivotal epoch in black political empowerment and provide a context for the future of black politics.

Spis treści

Preface: A New Beginning, Introduction and Overview: Participatory Dynamics and the Promise of Black Electoral Politics, Part I Coming of Age: Black Politics and Black Political Scientists, Part II Black Mayoralties and the Maturation of the New Black Politics, Part III Black Politics in the 1990s: Looking Forward or Looking Back?

O autorze

Georgia Persons