1st Edition

Black Politics in a Time of Transition

By David Covin Copyright 2012
    190 Pages
    by Routledge

    239 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Editors' Note

    Articles

    Black Power in Black Presidential Bids from Jackson to Obama
    Katherine Tate
    "But, I Voted for Obama": Melodrama and Post-Civil Rights,
    Postfeminist Ideology in Grey's Anatomy , Crash, and
    Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign
    Nikol Alexander-Floyd
    Afro-Brazilian Black Linked Fate in Salvador and
    Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Gladys Mitchell-Walthour

    Symposium
    Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois: The Intellectual Grandfather
    of Contemporary African American Studies
    Mack H. Jones
    Du Boisian Thought in Contemporary America: From Double
    Consciousness to Dual Marginality
    Rutledge Dennis
    W. E. B. Du Bois: The Prime Minister of the State We Never Had
    William Strickland

    Works in Progress
    Editors' Introduction
    Michael Mitchell and David Covin
    Editors' Interview with Ronald Walters
    Ronald Walters
    The Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance:
    The Elections and Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and
    Barack Obama
    Robert C. Smith
    Studying Changes in Black Congressional Behavior from
    Carter to Obama
    Katherine Tate
    Aaron Henry of Mississippi: A Political Biography of a Man
    and a Movement for Black Empowerment, 1927–1996
    Minion K. C. Morrison

    Book Reviews
    The Practice of Expanding Boundaries in Black Politics
    Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
    Shelby F. Lewis, ed., Historical Inevitability:
    The Role of Hurricane Katrina in the New
    Orleans Saga
    , reviewed by Clyde Woods
    Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers,
    The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright,
    Barack Obama, and Race in America
    , reviewed by Major Coleman
    Robert Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow of Du Bois:
    Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
    , reviewed
    by Barrington S. Edwards
    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
    , reviewed by Troy Jackson
    Kathleen R. Arnold, America's New Working Class: Race,
    Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age
    , reviewed by
    Michael Tran
    Glen Browder, The South's New Racial
    Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History
    ,
    reviewed by John A. Tures
    Melanye T. Price, Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism
    and African American Public Opinion
    , reviewed by
    Erica R. Edwards
    Deirdre Martinez, Who Speaks for Hispanics?
    Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington , reviewed
    by Amrah Salomon Johnson
    Dara Z. Strolovitch, Affirmative Advocacy: Race,
    Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics
    , reviewed
    by Zahra Ahmed

    From the NCOBPS Archive
    Beyond Tactical Withdrawal: An Early History of
    the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
    Joseph P. McCormick II
    Invitation to the Scholarly Community

    Biography

    David Covin