African American Perspectives on Political Science

CONTENTS

C O N T E N T S Foreword • CHARLES V. HAMILTON ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction • WILBUR C. RICH 1 PART ONE Race and Political Scientists 5 CHAPTER 1 Still at the Margins: The Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Political Science, 1986–2003 • ERNEST J. WILSON III AND LORRIE A. FRASURE 7 CHAPTER 2 The Race Variable and the American Political Science Association’s State of the Discipline Reports and Books, 1907–2002 • HANES WALTON JR. AND ROBERT C. SMITH 24 CHAPTER 3 African American Political Scientists in Academic Wonderland • WILBUR C. RICH 38 PART TWO Globalization and Transnational Politics 53 CHAPTER 4 Black Politics in Latin America: An Analysis of National and Transnational Politics • OLLIE A. JOHNSON III 55 CHAPTER 5 Globalization and the Study of Development • VERNON D. JOHNSON 76 PART THREE Civic Engagement and Voting 105 CHAPTER 6 Political Science and the Study of African American Public Opinion • MELISSA V. HARRIS-LACEWELL 107 CHAPTER 7 A Black Gender Gap? Continuity and Change in Attitudes toward Black Feminism • EVELYN M. SIMIEN 130 CHAPTER 8 Going It Alone: Black Women Activists and Black Organizational Quiescence • ANDREA Y. SIMPSON 151 CHAPTER 9 Political Scientists and the Activist-Technocrat Dichotomy: The Case of John Aubrey Davis • MARTIN KILSON 169 PART FOUR Political Institutions 193 CHAPTER 10 Dimensions of Representation and the Congressional Black Caucus • KENNY J. WHITBY 195 CHAPTER 11 Toward a Critical Race Theory in Political Science: A New Synthesis for Understanding Race, Law, and Politics • BARBARA LUCK GRAHAM 212 CHAPTER 12 Presidential Leadership and the Politics of Race: Stereotypes, Symbols, and Scholarship • WILBUR C. RICH 232 PART FIVE The Subfields 251 CHAPTER 13 Comparative Politics and Asia: Contesting Hegemonic Inter- and Intra-Disciplinary Boundaries • GERMAINE A. HOSTON, PHD 253 CHAPTER 14 Race and the Problem of Equity in the Administrative State: Implications for Political Science Theory and Methods • LENNEAL J. HENDERSON JR. 285 CHAPTER 15 Race and the City: The View from Two Political Science Journals • MARION ORR AND VALERIE C. JOHNSON 308 CHAPTER 16 Navigating the Muddy Waters of the Mainstream: Tracing the Mystification of Racism in International Relations • ERROL A. HENDERSON 325 CHAPTER 17 A Critical Review of American Political Institutions: Reading Race into the Constitutional “Silence” on Race • KATHERINE TATE, KEVIN L. LYLES, AND LUCIUS J. BARKER 364 CHAPTER 18 Political Science Confronts Afro-America: A Reconsideration • JERRY G. WATTS 398 Contributors 434 Index 438 C O N T E N T S vi L I S T O F TA B L E S A N D F I G U R E S Tables 1.1 Search Totals for Full-Length Articles (FLAs), 1970–1985 14 1.2 Search Totals for Full-Length Articles (FLAs), 1986–2003 15 1.3 Search Totals for Full-Length Articles (FLAs) by Titles and Abstracts, 1970–1985 16 1.4 Search Totals for Full-Length Articles (FLAs) by Titles and Abstracts, 1986–2003 17 1.5 Search Totals for Full-Length Articles (FLAs) by Select Political Science Journals 18 2.1 APSA-Sponsored State of the Discipline Reports and Books 26 5.1 Typology of Paradigms of Development 99 7.1 Characteristics of the Sample, 2004–2005 NBFS versus 1993–1994 NBPS 137 7.2 Support for Black Feminist Consciousness in 2004–2005 141 7.3 Support for Black Feminist Consciousness in 1993–1994 142 7.4 Determinants of Black Political Behavior, Estimated Separately for Gender 143 7.5 Determinants of Various Modes of Political Behavior, Estimated Separately for Black Women 145 7.6 Determinants of Various Modes of Political Behavior, Estimated Separately for Black Men 146 10.1 African American Members in Congress, 92nd–108th Congresses 198 10.2 African American Members in 109th Congress by Party, State, and Year Elected 204 14.1 Department of Defense Spending for Goods, Services, and Research and Development in Selected Metropolitan Areas (Excluding Military Payroll), 1992 296 14.2 Number of Minority Firms Participating in SBA’s 8(a) Program, 1985–2000 297 14.3 Budget of the Office of Minority Economic Impacts, U.S. Department of Energy, 1985–1991 297 14.4 Percentage Change in Federal Taxes, 1991 299 14.5 Tax Increase Borne by Various Income Groups, 1991 300 14.6 EITC Benefit Structure, 1993 301 15.1 Articles in Two Premier Journals 309 15.2 Percentage of Articles in Five Substantive Research Areas 311 Figures 8.1 Women...