Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same

About the Author

About the Author Robert C. Smith, professor of political science, San Francisco State University, is the author of the Encyclopedia of African American Politics, as well as many books including Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion; Racism in the Post Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t, We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post Civil Rights Era; and African American Leadership, all published by the State University of New York Press. He is currently completing a book comparing the Irish Catholic and African American experiences in the United States and the election of the first Irish Catholic and first African American presidents. 261 ...