What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People?: The Impact of Ronald W. Walters on African American Thought and Leadership

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vii Contents List of Tables and Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Robert C. Smith 1 Part I 1. Our Tallest Tree: An Essay toward a Biography of Ronald Walters Robert G. Newby 25 2. The Groundbreaking Wichita Sit-In Movement: An Essay in Appreciation of Ronald Walters’ Scholarly and Political Contributions Aldon Morris 57 3. Reflections Ronald W. Walters 85 Part II 4. The Black Science in Political Science Katherine Tate 93 5. Black Intellectuals in the Age of New Democratic Politics: Reflections on Ronald Walters, the Maryland Years Cedric Johnson 113 viii Contents Part III 6. A Modest Proposal: A Call for Leadership Specialization and the Recognition of Multiple Black Constituencies Andra Gillespie 139 7. Still Waters Run Deep: Synthesizing Ronald Walters’ Theses on Black Leadership and Black Nationalism Errol Henderson 159 Part IV 8. Usurper-in-Chief? White Nationalism, the Tea Party Movement, and President Barack Obama Adolphus G. Belk Jr. 189 9. White Nationalism, Black Interests, and Contemporary American Politics Corey Cook 227 Part V 10. Ronald Walters and the District of Columbia: Action Research and the Odyssey of the Capital Colony Lenneal J. Henderson 245 11. Ronald Walters as a Political Empowerment Theorist: The Concept of Leverage Strategies Hanes Walton Jr. 261 Part VI 12. Ronald Walters: Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy Justice Karin L. Stanford 287 13. Ronald Walters: Pan Africanism and International Struggles for Social Justice Horace Campbell 311 14. Reparations, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity Charles P. Henry 333 Contents ix Part VII 15. Civil Rights and the First Black President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Racial Equality Ronald W. Walters, with the assistance of Robert C. Smith 353 Afterword Robert C. Smith 367 About the Editors and Contributors 379 Index 383 ...