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 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 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 ...