African American Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
2. Black Politics Today

   The Era of Socioeconomic Transition

   By Theodore J. Davis Jr.

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   The late 1980s ushered in a new era of black politics, the socioeconomic transition era. Coming on the heels of the protest era and politics era, the current stage is characterized by the emergence of a new black middle class that came of age after the Civil Rights struggle. Although class still...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
3. Whose Black Politics?

   Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

   Edited by Andra Gillespie

   The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, they were raised in integrated neighborhoods and educated in majority white institutions, and they are more likely to...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
4. New Orleans in the Atlantic World

   Between Land and Sea

   Edited by William Boelhower

   The thematic project ‘New Orleans in the Atlantic World’ was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city’s identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does. Balanced...

   Published October 28th 2009 by Routledge
5. Race and American Political Development

   Edited by Joseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren

   Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political...

   Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge
6. Black Conservatism

   Essays in Intellectual and Political History

   Edited by Peter Eisenstadt

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
7. Black Movements in America

   By Cedric J. Robinson

   Cedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the 16th and 17th centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on the historical record, he argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a...

   Published February 19th 1997 by Routledge