Black and Multiracial Politics in America

Contributors

Contributors Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, minority politics, and political behavior. She is the author of Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America (Garland 1998), as well as several articles and book chapters . Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, National Academy of Education and the National Science Foundation. Akwasi B. Assensoh received his Ph.D. in history from New York University . He is Associate Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Among his many publications are Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,and America’s Quest for Racial Integration (Stockwell 1986) and African Political Leadership (Kreiger 1998). He is currently coauthoring a book (with Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh) on the African military, ideology, and poverty. M. Margaret Conway is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her research interests include public opinion , political socialization, political participation, and women and politics. Among her numerous publications is Political Participation in the United States (3rd ed., Congressional Quarterly 1998). José E. Cruz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Temple University Press 1998). James W. Endersby is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. His research fields xvii include voting and elections, interest groups, and legislative behavior . He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Public Choice, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Sekou Franklin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. His areas of interest are African American politics and American government, with an emphasis on political behavior and research methodology. Lawrence J. Hanks is Associate Professor of political science at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. His research and teaching interests center on African Americans and the American political system, the politics of traditionally disempowered groups (people of color, women, gays, the elderly , and the physically challenged), interest group politics, black politics in the rural South, and critical analyses of normative issues in the area of the black struggle for equity in America. He was a contributor to A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society and author of The Struggle for Black Political Empowerment in Three Georgia Counties. Errol A. Henderson earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University, where he teaches courses on international relations, nationalism, and war. He is author of Afrocentrism and World Politics (Praeger 1995), and his recent publications can be found in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Politics. Susan Howell is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana and Director of the University’s Survey Research Center. Her areas of specialization are American public opinion , voting behavior, and research methods. She has published articles in Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Political Behavior and has written several book chapters. Natasha Hritzuk is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Columbia University. Michael Jones-Correa is Associate Professor of Political Science at Harvard University. He is the author of Between Two Nations: The Poxviii Contributors litical Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell 1998), as well as various articles on Latino identity and politics, denominational affiliation and political participation, the role of gender in shaping immigrant politics, and Hispanics as a foreign policy lobby. He is currently at work on a book that looks at civic and political responses to racial disturbances in the United States. Pie-te Lien is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. Her research interests include race, ethnicity , gender, and political participation, particularly regarding Asian Americans. She is the author of The Political Participation of Asian Americans: Voting Behavior in Southern California (Garland 1997), among other works. Mamie Locke is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education and Professor of Political Science at Hampton University. Her research and teaching interests include race and...