The expanding boundaries of Black politics / Georgia A. Persons, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Persons, Georgia Anne.

Series:

National political science review ; v. 11.

The national political science review ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century--Congresses.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government--21st century--Congresses.

Political participation--United States--Congresses.

Political participation.

Elections--United States--Congresses.

Elections.

African Americans--Social conditions--1975---Congresses.

Race relations.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Politics and government.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century--Congresses.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Genre:

History.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 404 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

This volume joins the preceding volumes in this distinguished series in presenting contemporary research by leading political scientists addressing topics of interest to those concerned with African-American affairs. It captures the expanding boundaries of black politics and the persistent interests of the black community at large.

The anchoring symposium, "The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics," presents the scholarship of a cadre of young black political scientists actively engaged in the critical tasks of moving forward the study of black politics. Their concerns include expanding the boundaries of black politics along the lines of epistemology and methodology, especially in regard to core issues and areas within this field. In an introductory essay by Todd Shaw, the work of these scholars is situated within the context of temporal shifts in scholarly emphases. Overlapping issues and concerns across time as well as black political scholarship as defined in the field since its beginning are addressed.

The second part of this volume, entitled "Maximizing the Black Vote; Recognizing the Limits of Electoral Politics," concentrates on serious lingering social concerns. These include the policy significance of black mayors affecting the concomitant impact of the black vote, the boundaries being pushed concerning the conjunction of black theology and sexual identity, a gendered analysis of familial policies, and the deepening social and economic plight of young black males including felon disfranchisement.

The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics carries forth the search for an understanding of the relationship between religion, the black church, and black political behavior; cross-racial group coalitions as concerns matters of immigration, growing multiculturalism, and the impact on black politics; maximizing the impact of the black vote focusing on voting rights enforcement, the black vote in presidential elections, and the voice of the Congressional Black Caucus in American foreign policy; and persistent social inequalities especially as it concerns ideology, federalism, and social welfare policy.

Contents:

Expanding boundaries of black politics / Todd C. Shaw

Race and politics matter : black urban representation and social spending during the urban crisis / Robert A. Brown

new labor movement? : race, class, and the missing intersections between black and labor politics / Dorian T. Warren

Beyond the myth of the white middle-class : suburban immigrant and ethnic minority settlement in America / Lorrie A. Frasure

AIDS, context, and black politics / Lester Spence and Rena Boss-Victoria

Permanent outsiders : felon disenfranchisement and the breakdown of black politics / Khalilah L. Brown-Dean

Remembering Maleesa : theorizing black girl politics and the politicizing of socialization / Ruth Nicole Brown

"Whosoever will" : black theology, homosexuality, and the black political church / Todd C. Shaw and Eric L. McDaniel

Race, class, and the political behavior of African American young adults, 1960-1998 / Marwin J. Spiller

Let men be men : a gendered analysis of black ideological response to familial policies / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

impoverished "culture vs. structure" debate on the woes of young black males and its remedy / Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy

Power and race in cross-group coalitions / Marion Orr and Darrell M. West

Testing the effects of the otherworldly and thisworldly orientations on black political attitudes / Maurice Mangum

Federal enforcement of voting rights : party competition, disenfranchisement, and remedial measures / Ronald Walters

deck and the sea : the African American vote in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 / Robert C. Smith and Richard Seltzer

voice of the congressional black caucus in American foreign policy / Paige Whaley Eager

Just another interest group? : the organized representation of ethnic groups in American national politics / Matt Grossmann

Deracialization and white crossover voting in state legislative elections / Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown

systematic analysis of the deracialization concept / Byron D'Andra Orey and Boris E. Ricks

Conservatives, federalism and the defense of inequality / Donald J. Matthewson and Shelly Arsneault

Rhetoric, responsiveness, and policy moods : testing the issue of social welfare / Virginia H. Jordan and Phillip B. Bridgmon

War and morality : an examination of African Americans, the Republican Party, and the 2004 presidential election : a research note / Kevin A. Pirch

Race, preemption, and autonomy in the District of Columbia / Sekou M. Franklin and Richard Seltzer

Affirmative action has always been white, and still is : Ira Katznelson's untold histories / Robert C. Smith

Black feminist voices in politics by Evelyn M. Simien / Dutchess Harris.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

"A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780765803757

0765803755

OCLC:

78993935