Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.

Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.

A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.

A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.

Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.

Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.

Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.

Examines the political and economic changes of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta.

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

Documents political advances made by African Americans in the South over the last twenty-five years.

Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.

Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.

The first book solely devoted to the subject of black fraternity hazing.

The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.

Examines African American influence on United States foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

Groundbreaking research on Black political participation and urban race relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

Traces the connection between slavery and the way in which black women fiction writers depict female characters and address gender issues, particularly maternity.

Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.

Written by two of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.

Examines the significant role played by the U. S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.

Examines how citizens and the political leadership of two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools.

This first book-length study of Jesse Jackson's international activities places his activism abroad in theoretical and historical perspective and shows how it belongs to a tradition of U.S. citizen diplomacy as old as the Republic.

Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.

Tells the story (in the participants' own words) of how a determined southern filibuster was turned back in the U. S. Senate and the 1964 Civil Rights Act made into law.

This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.

This book convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution.

Race is arguably the most profound and enduring cleavage in American society and politics. This book examines the sources and dynamics of the race cleavage in American society through a detailed analysis ...

Based on data from some of the larger black communities in the U. S., this book shows the impact of both individual and environmental influences on black homicide. While it primarily addresses black-on-black ...

This is the biography of J. Raymond Jones, premiere political strategist and first Black leader of Tammany Hall, who served New York City and the Democratic Party from the Harlem Renaissance through the ...

This book takes the "next step" in the study of the civil rights movement in the United States. To date, the vast majority of books on the civil rights movement have analyzed either the origins and philosophies, ...

This book focuses exclusively on the question of how Blacks have used presidential elections to exercise political influence. Setting forth the argument that Blacks use the electoral system differently ...

Black Political Mobilization accounts for the political success of black Americans in the South. Minion Morrison returns to Mississippi, the center of much of the political activism of the 1960s, to analyze ...

This book examines in depth the century-long struggle of Black laborers in the iron and steel industry of western Pennsylvania. In the process it shows how the fate of these Black workers mirrors the ...

With a view that behavioralism has distorted perceptions of black political activity, Hanes Walton, Jr. , here reformulates the assumptions of behavioralism to arrive at a more realistic understanding ...