"A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists." Papers from a symposium. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Beyond the boundaries : a new structure of ambition in African American politics / Robert C. Smith -- Making history, again, so soon? : the Massachusetts gubernatorial election / Angela K. Lewis -- Running on race and against convention : Michael Steele, Kweisi Mfume, and Maryland's 2006 senate contest / Tyson D. King-Meadows -- Three wrongs and too far right : the wrong candidate, the wrong year, and the wrong state : J. Kenneth Blackwell's run for Ohio governor / Wendy G. Smooth -- Southern racial etiquette and the 2006 Tennessee senate race : the racialization of Harold Ford's deracialized campaign / Richard T. Middleton and Sekou M. Franklin -- Racial threat, Republicanism and the rebel flag : Trent Lott and the 2006 Mississippi senate race / Byron D'Andra Orey -- Statewide races in Maryland : unusual beginnings of a new era in electoral politics? / Walter W. Hill -- Electoral cycles in racial polarization and the 2006 senate elections / Richard Forgette and Marvin King -- The early electoral contests of Senator Barack Obama : a longitudinal analysis / Hanes Walton and Robert C. Starks -- The third wave : assessing the post-civil rights cohort of black elected leadership / Andra Gillespie -- Black identity : what does it mean for black leaders? / Jas M. Sullivan -- Learning to participate : the effects of civic education on racial ethnic minorities / Melissa Comber -- The literature on Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign / Hanes Walton, Josephine A.V. Allen, Sherman C. Puckett, Donald R. Deskins, and Leslie Burl McLemore -- A radical critique of the reparations movement / Carter A. Wilson -- Creating a transnational network of black representation in the Americas : a profile of the legislators at the first meeting of black parliamentarians in Latin America / Michael Mitchell, Minion K.C. Morrison, and Ollie Johnson -- Introductory political science textbooks : are they inclusive of African American politics? / Sherri L. Wallace and Dewey M. Clayton -- African American politics in third parties and urban affairs : a review essay / Hanes Walton.
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