Contours of African American Politics

Volume 2, Black Politics and the Dynamics of Social Change
Herausgeber: Persons, Georgia A

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781412847766
• ISBN-10: 1412847761
• Artikelnr.: 36129140

Autorenporträt

Georgia A. Persons

Inhaltsangabe

IV: Race and Representation; The 1990s Round of Redistricting: A Schematic
Outline of Some Key Features; Minority Representation and the Tradeoffs in
Legislative Redistricting; The Impact of Redistricting on African-American
Representation in the U.S. Congress and State Legislatures in the 1990s;
Social Movement Theory in the Examination of Mobilization in a Black
Community: The 1991 Sacramento Redistricting Project; The Voting Rights Act
and Judicial Elections: A Horse of a Different Color or Canary in the Coal
Mine?; The Recruitment of Blacks to State Courts of Last Resort;
African-American Presidential Convention and Nomination Politics: Alan
Keyes in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primaries and Convention; Call
and Response: The Politics of Speaking to and for Black America; The
Messages and the Messengers: Opinions from the Million Men Who Marched; V:
Legacies: Strategic Black Politics and Black Political Science; The Study
of African-American Politics as Social Danger: Clues from the Disciplinary
Journals; The Politics of The Black "Nation" A Twenty-Five-Year
Retrospective: Honoring the Scholarship of Matthew Holden; Introduction to
the Symposium: The Politics of the Black "Nation" Revisited; The Politics
of the Black "Nation": Significance and Context of the Book; In the Mirror
of Time: Unbound Interests and the New Black Leadership: A Retrospective
Critique of Essay I: "Centrifugal Influences on Black Politics"; Clientage,
Opposition, and Withdrawal: Three Forms of External Politics: A
Reexamination of Essay II; Revisiting Black Nationalist Politics: An
Assessment of Essay III: "Politics as a Collective Psychiatry: A Critique
of Withdrawal"; Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Comments on Essay
IV: "Toward Black Regrouping"; Toward Black Regrouping: Comments on Essay
V: "The Next Five Years: I. Morale and Objective Capacity"; Politics and
Organizational Options: Comments on Essay VI: "The Next Five Years: II.
Organizational Options"; Modifying Political Tactics: Comments on Essay
VII: "The Next Five Years: III. Modifying Political Tactics"; Honoring the
Founding Role and Scholarship of Mack H. Jones; An Assessment of the Works
of Mack Jones on the Development of Black Political Science: Introduction
to a Symposium; Reflections on Atlanta University Political Science; The
Epistemological Quest of Mack Jones; Observations on the Political Thought
and Methodology of Mack H. Jones; VI: Black Politics and the Dynamics of
Social Change; Erasing Racial Justice or How Liberals Become Black; Black
No More: Race Construction and the 2000 Census; Race and The Green Mile;
"Whosoever Will": Black Theology, Homosexuality, and the Black Political
Church; A Radical Critique of the Reparations Movement