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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
List of contents
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
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Georgia A. Persons, Georgia Institute of Technology
Summary
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
