Hanes Walton, Jr.
Subtitle: Architect of the Black Science of Politics
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Mar 14, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9783319755700
Description: "Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton's corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science. It concludes with an analysis of how the subfield has evolved since Walton's pioneering work"--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Hanes Walton, Jr.: Architect of the Black Science of Politics