Contours of African American Politics: Volume 1, Race and Representation in American Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412847753 ISBN 13: 9781412847759

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

<strong>Georgia A. Persons</strong> is professor of political science in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. She has written articles for <em>Policy Studies Review</em>, the <em>National Civic Review</em>, and <em>Phylon</em>, and is also the former series editor of Transaction’s National Political Science Review. In addition she is the author of <em>The Making of Energy and Telecommunications Policy</em>.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1412847753
• ISBN 13: 9781412847759
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Persons Georgia A.