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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383 Index Abramowitz, Alan, 360 action research (AR) and the role of a public intellectual, 246–47 activism, 9. See also under Walters: characterizations of activist approach to research and writing, 8 Adams, John, 262 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANC), 252–53 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions: A Study of Citizen Participation in the District of Columbia (Walters et al.), 252 Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare), 213. See also Obama, Barack: health care and Africa African Americans on economic policy toward, 300–301 economic development for, 300 study of, 50 African Affairs, Council on, 323 African American leadership, 161–67. See also black political leadership; leaders challenges to, 163 nature of, 9–10 Robert Smith on, 87, 139, 162, 163 study of, 87 as theme in Walters’ work, 9–10 Walters and the world of, 118 African American Leadership (Walters and Smith), 8, 124, 139, 140, 152, 160 African American Leadership Institute (AALI), 115, 122–27 Scholar-Practitioner program, 126–27 African American leadership strategies , 162–63 “African-American Nationalism: Toward a Unifying Ideology” (Walters), 167–68 African American political neophytes Walters’ initial leverage theory and, 271–75 Walters’ refined leverage theory and, 276–78 African Americans. See blacks “African and Growth Opportunity Act: A Renaissance for Whom?” (Walters), 300 African Culture, American Society of, 325 384 Index African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) (“NAFTA for Africa”), 115, 129 origins of and historical perspective on, 129 Walters’ opposition to, 114, 117, 127–33, 300 African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA), 291–92, 298, 321, 325–26 African leadership, 130 African Liberation Day, 120 African liberation movement, 288 African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), 128, 292, 319, 327 Pan Africanism and, 326–28 African Studies Association (ASA), 291, 321, 325 African Unity, Organization of, 295–96 Africanist, The (journal), 290–91 Africans contradictory nature of U.S. policy in relation to, 297 quest for self-determination, 299 scholarly divisions over the definition of who is African, 319 Afrocentric political movements, internationalist, 319 Aidoo, Ama Atta, 316 Alexander, Michelle, 102 Ali, Muhammad, 177 Altshuler, Alan, 252 Amadiume, Ifi, 316 American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, An (Bunche), 28 American exceptionalism, 343 American Legion’s Sunflower Boys State, 44–45 American Society of African Culture (ASAC), 325 American University, 50, 290 Americans for Prosperity (AFP), 207–10, 216 Amin, Esam Al-, 313, 318 Anderson, James, 41 anger in America and alienation in Tea Party, 202–5 apartheid. See also South Africa: apartheid in “footnote,” 88 “Apartheid and the Bomb: The U.S. and South Africa’s Military Potential” (Walters), 298 apology, age of, 345 April 6 Youth Movement of Egypt, 317–18 Apter, David, 324, 325 Aptheker, Herbert, 374 “Arab Spring,” 312–13, 329 Arendt, Hannah, 97 Armey, Dick, 208 Asante, Molefi, 321 Atlanta University, 6 Axelrod, James, 25 Aziz, Tariq, 294 Bachmann, Michele, 206, 344–45 backlash. See white backlash Balance of Power: The Negro Vote (Moon), 280 balance of power theory/strategy, 272, 274, 275, 279–81 Baldwin, James, 343 Balfour, Lawrie, 338–39 Barack Obama and Twenty-FirstCentury Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA (Campbell), 329 Baraka, Amiri, 290, 321, 327 Index 385 Barkan, Elazar, 345 Barnett, Ferdinand L., 41 Barras, Johnetta Rose, 124 Barreto, Matt A., 104 Barry, Marion, 249, 252, 255–57 Bates, Daisy, 67, 77 Beck, Glenn, 206, 329 Bell, Derrick, 95, 98–102, 107, 108 Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine, 311 Bennett, Bob, 240 Bennett, Lerone, 74 Berry, Mary Francis, 287 “Beyond Sanctions” (Walters), 299–300 “big tent” model (black nationalism ), 154, 168 Billingsley, Andrew, 51, 247 black activism. See also under Walters : characterizations of encountering American political science, 4–8 black community, 371, 372 acknowledging and organizing around differences within. See specialization in black community idea of a “monolithic,” 371 “two black movements” and two black Americas, 145 black consciousness, 169 black conservatism, 105 defined, 105 sociopolitical and institutional basis, 106 black conventions, 88 Black Democratic Caucus, 88 black elected officials (BEOs), 172, 179 black interests (and black agenda) class politics, black politics, and, 373–74 converging with white interests, 100 shared, 372–73 black leadership. See African American leadership black nationalism, 167–73 defining, 168, 169 importance of appreciating, 176 vs. integrationism, 166, 168, 170–76, 178–82, 371–72 “land oriented” and “social justice” perspectives within, 169–70 misunderstandings of, 175 “modernizing,” 172 related concepts, 175 Robert Smith on, 170–73, 182n3 “soft,” 372 synthesizing black leadership and, 173–80 wartime and...