Charting the Range of Black Politics: National Political Science Review, Volume 14 (National Political Science Review Series) - Softcover

Mitchell, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141284939X ISBN 13: 9781412849395

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The election of 2008 brought onto the national stage complexitiesarising when the member of a minority group assumes power over national political institutions. It also underlined the limits placed on that power by the double accountability such a figure faces. The question posed in this volume of the NPSR is: Might the ascendancy of President Obama lead to a deracialization of American politics or its opposite?

The contributions to this volume examine this question in a variety of ways. David Wilson and Khalilah Brown-Dean analyze black attitudes towards the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination in the presidential race of 2008. Lorenzo Morris asks how perceptions of race have defined expectations of the African American ambassadors to the United Nations. Horace Bartilow and Kihong Eom use a game theoretic approach to examine US drug strategies in the Caribbean.

A works-in-progress section follows with personal reflections by Michael C. Dawson and Andra Gillespe. They relate how personal concerns and curiosities guide their research. A book review section provides a discussion about works of interest to scholars studying black politics.

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Michael Mitchell

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141284939X
• ISBN 13: 9781412849395
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138