1st Edition

The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics

By Georgia A. Persons Copyright 2007
    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Editor’s Introductory Note; Part I. The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics: A Symposium; The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics; Race and Politics Matter: Black Urban Representation and Social Spending during the Urban Crisis; A New Labor Movement? Race, Class, and the Missing Intersections between Black and Labor Politics; Beyond the Myth of the White Middle-Class: Suburban Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement in America; AIDS, Context, and Black Politics; Permanent Outsiders: Felon Disenfranchisement and The Breakdown of Black Politics; Theorizing Black Girl Politics and the Politicizing of Socialization; “Whosoever Will”: Black Theology, Homosexuality, and the Black Political Church; Race and Democracy in the Americas; Race, Class, and the Political Behavior of African American Young Adults, 1960-1998; Let Men be Men: A Gendered Analysis of Black Ideological Response to Familial Policies; Part II. Maximizing the Black Vote: Recognizing the Limits of Electoral Politics; The Impoverished “Culture vs. Structure” Debate on the Woes of Young Black Males and Its Remedy; Power and Race in Cross-Group Coalitions; Testing the Effects of the Otherworldly and This worldly Orientations on Black Political Attitudes; Federal Enforcement of Voting Rights: Party Competition, Disenfranchisement, and Remedial Measures; The Deck and the Sea: The African American Vote in the Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004; The Voice of the Congressional Black Caucus in American Foreign Policy; Just Another Interest Group? The Organized Representation of Ethnic Groups in American National Politics; Deracialization and White Crossover Voting in State Legislative Elections; A Systematic Analysis of the Deracialization Concept; Conservatives, Federalism and the Defense of Inequality; Rhetoric, Responsiveness, and Policy Moods: Testing the Issue of Social Welfare; Race and Democracy in the Americas War and Morality: An Examination of African Americans, the Republican Party, and the 2004 Presidential Election: A Research Note ; Race, Preemption, and Autonomy in the District of Columbia; BOOK FORUM: Book Reviews

    Biography

    Georgia A. Persons, Georgia Institute of Technology