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

About the Editors and Contributors

379 Editors and Contributors Editors Robert C. Smith is professor of political science at San Francisco State University. A former student of Walters, he coauthored with him African American Leadership. In addition he is the author of the Encyclopedia of African American Politics and ten other books, including most recently Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same and John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance. Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. A former student of Walters, he coauthored with him Bibliography of African American Leadership: An Annotated Guide; Johnson is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics and is editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Robert G. Newby, a lifelong friend of Walters, is emeritus professor of sociology at Central Michigan University. His articles on racism, inequality, and the civil rights movement have appeared in leading journals of sociology. Contributors Adolphus G. Belk Jr., a former student of Walters, is assistant professor of political science and African American studies at Winthrop University. He is currently working on a book dealing with mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. 380 Editors and Contributors Horace Campbell is professor of political science and African American Studies at Syracuse University. He has published widely in scholarly journals and edited volumes and is the author of four books, including most recently Barack Obama and 21st-Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA. Corey Cook is associate professor of political science and director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco. His research has been published in the Du Bois Review, American Politics Research, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Andra Gillespie is associate professor of political science at Emory University. Her current research focuses on the political leadership of the post–civil rights era generation. She is the editor of Whose Black Politics? Cases in Postracial Black Leadership and The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Postracial America. Errol Henderson is associate professor of political science and African American studies at Penn State University. He is the author of Afrocentrism and World Politics: Toward a New Paradigm and Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion. Lenneal J. Henderson is Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration and senior fellow at the William Donald Schafer Center for Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore . An internationally recognized authority on urban politics and policy, he has written extensively on District of Columbia politics. Charles P. Henry is the Emeritus H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than eighty articles and reviews and seven books, including Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other? and Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations. He is coeditor of The Obama Phenomenon: Toward Multiracial Democracy in America, and from 1986 to 1988 he was chair of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA. Editors and Contributors 381 Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change is a seminal contribution to the literature of the civil rights movement. He is currently writing a book on the role of W.E.B. Du Bois in the founding of American sociology. Karin L. Stanford is professor Pan African studies at California State University, Northridge. A former student of Walters, she is coeditor of Black Political Organizations in the Post–Civil Rights Era and author of Beyond the Boundaries: Reverend Jesse Jackson in International Affairs. She is a former Congressional Black Caucus Fellow and director of the Washington bureau of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Katherine Tate is professor of political science and African American studies at Brown University. She is the author of the award-winning From Protest to Politics: The New Black Voter in American Elections, Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in Congress, What’s Going On? Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion, and Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama. Hanes Walton Jr. (1941–2013) at the time...