Black Politics in a Time of Transition
By: David Covin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781351313728
Subjects: African Americans; Politics and government; African American leadership; History; African American politicians
Description: "Black Politics in a Time of Transition appears at an historic point in American politics. From the vantage point of the maturation of the study of black politics, this volume provides a framework for current and future discussion of this critical time. Incorporating the expanded stream of work on today's black politics, this latest volume of the National Political Science Review is also a new assessment of the period from which the study of black politics emerged. Selected for this volume are chapters of contemporary relevance alongside those that reconsider an early twentieth- century pioneer in black politics and history, W.E.B. Du Bois. The volume also includes a robust book review section that spans a range of topics from the South's new racial politics to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This volume features work by varied and accomplished scholars, including "Black Power in Black Presidential Bids From Jackson to Obama," Katherine Tate; "'But I Voted for Obama': Melodrama and Post-Civil Rights, Post-Feminist Ideology in Grey's Anatomy, Crash, and Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Bid," Nikol Alexander-Floyd; "Afro-Brazilian Black Linked Fate in Salvador and Sao Paulo, Brazil," Gladys Mitchell; and "Beyond Tactical Withdrawal: An Early History of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists," Joseph P. McCormick, II."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Note; Articles; Black Power in Black Presidential Bids from Jackson to Obama; "But, I Voted for Obama": Melodrama and Post-Civil Rights, Postfeminist Ideology in Grey's Anatomy, Crash, and Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign; Afro-Brazilian Black Linked Fate in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil; Symposium; Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Intellectual Grandfather of Contemporary African American Studies; Du Boisian Thought in Contemporary America: From Double Consciousness to Dual Marginality.; title: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Prime Minister of the State We Never HadWorks in Progress; Editors' Introduction; Editors' Interview with Ronald Walters; The Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance: The Elections and Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama; Studying Changes in Black Congressional Behavior from Carter to Obama; Aaron Henry of Mississippi: A Political Biography of a Man and a Movement for Black Empowerment, 1927-1996; Book Reviews; The Practice of Expanding Boundaries in Black Politics.; title: Shelby F. Lewis, ed., Historical Inevitability: The Role of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans SagaClarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers, The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America; Robert Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America; James W. Button, Sheila L. Croucher, and Barbara A. Rienzo, Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality: The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States.; title: Kathleen R. Arnold, America's New Working Class: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical AgeGlen Browder, The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History; Melanye T. Price, Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion; Deirdre Martinez, Who Speaks for Hispanics? Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington; Dara Z. Strolovitch, Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics; From the NCOBPS Archive; Beyond Tactical Withdrawal: An Early History of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.