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This new tenth edition includes three core additions: an assessment of the 2022 midterm and 2024 presidential and congressional midterm elections;nthe presidency of Joseph R. Biden in the context of divided government; an overall general assessment of the record of the African American elected officials' in advancing the "Black Agenda".
List of contents
PART I FOUNDATIONS 1. Universal Freedom Declared, Universal Freedom Denied: Racism, Slavery, and the Ideology of White Supremacy in the Founding of the Republic 2. Federalism and the Limits of Universal Freedom
PART II POLITICAL BEHAVIORISM 3.
Political Culture and Socialization 4. Public Opinion 5. The Media
PART III COALITIONS, MOVEMENTS, INTEREST GROUPS, PARTIES, AND ELECTIONS 6. Social Movements and a Theory of African American Coalition Politics 7. Interest Groups 8. Political Parties 9. Voting Behavior and Elections
PART IV INSTITUTIONS 10. The Congress and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom 11. The Presidency, Bureaucracy, and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom 12. The Supreme Court and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom 13. State and Local Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom
PART V PUBLIC POLICY 14. Domestic Policy and the African American Quest for Social and Economic Justice 15. The African American Quest for Universal Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy
About the author
Robert C. Smith ¿ (1947-2023), Professor of Political Science Emeritus, San Francisco State University, was a (co-)author of multiple books, edited volumes, and articles such as:
We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era;
Racism in the Post-Civil-Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't; and his memoir,
From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar.
Sherri L. Wallace, Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville, has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and instructional design and serves in a variety of teaching and learning capacities on professional associations' task forces, curriculum assessments, and textbook evaluations.
Hanes Walton, Jr. ¿ (1941-2013), Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, was an architect of the modern study of African American politics. Over four decades of prodigious research (including 25 books), teaching, mentoring, and conceptual refinement, he helped to make the subfield of Black politics an important area of study in political science.
