Contours Of African American Politics

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351525999
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The notion of a post-racial America is one that was birthed by the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. However, another reality is equally compelling: that for some time now, many African American aspirants for elective office have run against race-specific issues, putting individual desires to win office above the conventionally defined collective interests of black folk. Clearly, the Obama presidential election crystallized a complexity of change that had been underway in America prior to his election. Indeed, did the Obama election signal the end of black politics? Does race remain a useful construct for framing the collective interests of African Americans? Volume III of Contours of African American Politics examines all of these questions in an effort to understand the more poignant question of the future of that which we have known as black politics.

Author : John F. Knutson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526057
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by John F. Knutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526022
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 analyse 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 organised 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 mobilisation necessary for optimising 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 organisation. The two volumes illuminate a pivotal epoch in black political empowerment and provide a context for the future of black politics.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412851122
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The notion of a post-racial America is one that was birthed by the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. However, another reality is equally compelling: that for some time now, many African American aspirants for elective office have run against race-specific issues, putting individual desires to win office above the conventionally defined collective interests of black folk. Clearly, the Obama presidential election crystallized a complexity of change that had been underway in America prior to his election. Indeed, did the Obama election signal the end of black politics? Does race remain a useful construct for framing the collective interests of African Americans? Volume III of Contours of African American Politics examines all of these questions in an effort to understand the more poignant question of the future of that which we have known as black politics.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412847877
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of articles drawn from prior issues of the National Political Science Review.

Author : Georgia Anne Persons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics: Black politics and the dynamics of social change written by Georgia Anne Persons and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georgia Anne Persons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics: Race and representation in American politics written by Georgia Anne Persons and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781412847759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contours of African American Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of articles drawn from prior issues of the National Political Science Review.

Author : Michael Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351530623
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics written by Michael Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first concentrates on the institutional aspects of Black politics. The second book addresses various dimensions of social capital that constitute the fundamental building blocks of Black politics. Each contains peer-reviewed articles, a symposium section, and book reviews, as well as other featured sections.Together, these books build on the previous NPSR volume, Black Women in Politics. The symposium in Volume 17:1 examines the struggle of Black women, both in the political science discipline and in getting their work published. In the symposium section of Volume 17:2, members of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists carry on a revealing conversation about the dilemmas of professional life for Black women in political science.The set also contains a section called "Trends," which offers data to use as starting points for discussions in teaching, on professional panels, or in the mass media, regarding the new versions of the Voting Rights Act after the Shelby County v. Holder decision of 2013. Both volumes 17:1 and 17:2 contain rigorously vetted articles on significant themes in the study of Black politics. This set represents the most recent offering in the distinguished National Political Science Review series.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351313916
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Beyond the Boundaries written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, African American aspirations for political offi ce were assumed to be limited to areas with sizeable black population bases. By and large, black candidates have rarely been successful in statewide or national elections. This has been attributed to several factors: limited resources available to African American candidates, or identifi cation with a black liberationist ideological thrust. Other factors have been a relatively small and spatially concentrated primary support base of black voters, and the persistent resistance of many white voters to support black candidates. For these reasons, the possibility of black candidates winning elections to national offi ce was presumably just a dream. Conventional wisdom conceded a virtual cap on both the possible number of black elected officials and the level of elective offi ce to which they could ascend. But objective political analysis has not always made sufficient allowances for the more universal phenomenon of individual political ambitions. Th e contributors to this volume explore the ways ambitious individuals identifi ed and seized upon strategies that are expanding the boundaries of African American electoral politics. This volume is anchored by a symposium that focuses on new possibiities in African American politics. Both the electoral contests of 2006 and the Barack Obama presidential campaign represent an emergent dynamic in American electoral politics. Analysts are beginning to agree that the contours of social change now make the electoral successes of black candidates who are perceived as ideologically and culturally mainstream increasingly likely. The debate captured in this volume will likely inspire further scholarly inquiry into the changing nature and dimensions of the larger dynamic of race in American politics and the subsequent changing political fortunes of African American candidates.