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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944331
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This issue is reflective of the arch of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) in which our first article is the presidential inaugural address of President Emmitt Riley. President Riley’s vision for NCOBPS is one that views the scholarship and activism of NCOBPS members as a catalyst to impact the discipline and provides solu- tions for the challenges African Americans currently face. President Riley’s dynamic vision is grounded in the core principles of NCOBPS as established by the organization’s founders.As we reflect on the possibilities of NCOBPS’s future we find it fitting to provide a tribute to one of our visionary founders, Professor Emerita Dr. Mae C. King, who passed away on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallEditors’ Introduction2025-01-01text/htmlen-USEditors’ Introduction2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®32622026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-0142nd Presidential Address, National Conference of Black Political Scientists
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944332
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some, they come in with the tide. For others, they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.To the members of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, outgoing President Dr. Tiffany Willoughby Herard, Executive Director Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, members of the executive council, past presidents of the national conference of Black
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmall42nd Presidential Address, National Conference of Black Political Scientists2025-01-01text/htmlen-US42nd Presidential Address, National Conference of Black Political Scientists2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®347752026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944333
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Mae Coates King. Photo courtesy of National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS)This year, NCOBPS lost a founding member and trailblazer in the fields of African politics and Black women in politics. Dr. Mae C. King, Professor Emerita of Political Science at Howard University, passed away on November 4, 2022. Dr. King’s scholarship, professional service, and personal example left an indelible impression on generations of political scientists. Upon her passing, former NCOBPS president David Covin, who himself recently passed away,1 noted in a personal email to an NRBP editor that her example as the only Black graduate student at the University of Idaho was an inspiration to him as one of the few Black
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallHonoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King2025-01-01text/htmlen-USHonoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®34692026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Mae Coates King: Her Story
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944334
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Dr. Mae Coates King was born in Lee County, Arkansas, to a farmer and preacher father and a housewife mother. It was her grandfather, Robert, who piqued her interest in Africa that would shape her career. In March 1960, Mae C. King went to jail. As a twenty-oneyear-old student at Bishop College, an HBCU, and Chairman of the local chapter of the National Student Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), she was at the forefront of student challenges to racial discrimination in local community of Marshall, Texas. There, she helped to lead sit-ins and other forms of direct action after being trained in nonviolent tactics by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This commitment to justice and equality was met
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallMae Coates King: Her Story2025-01-01text/htmlen-USMae Coates King: Her Story2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®131422026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Oppression and Power: The Unique Status of the Black Woman in the American Political System
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944335
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The unique status of the black woman, when compared to other women in the American political system, is rooted in the heritage of slavery based on race. While racism was institutionalized by the slave system, this ideology assumed a value independent of the particular system under which it first flourished. Consequently, when the plantation slave structures were destroyed, the oppression of the black woman and other blacks, which was now justified on a racial basis, continued in other institutional forms. The belief had been established and internalized that black people were inferior to white people and experienced deserved oppression because of their race, not necessarily because of the slave structures that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallOppression and Power: The Unique Status of the Black Woman in the American Political System2025-01-01text/htmlen-USOppression and Power: The Unique Status of the Black Woman in the American Political System2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®571662026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01The Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King: NCOBPS Founders’ Symposium 2023
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944336
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On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Mae C. King’s 1973 piece “The Politics of Sexual Stereotypes” still looms large in the discussions we’re having today (King 1982). Dr. King makes clear that the myths surrounding women’s bodies have actual consequences that are especially damaging to Black women. King urges society to reckon with stereotypes as more than just hurtful words, but crucially as a “system sanctioned,” with pernicious effects on the livelihoods of Black women. For example, a 2017 ProPublica report received nationwide attention for elevating the realities of Black Maternal health (Waldman 2017). Waldman articulates that Black birthing people experience significantly higher rates of harm, even
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallThe Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King: NCOBPS Founders’ Symposium 20232025-01-01text/htmlen-USThe Legacy of Dr. Mae C. King: NCOBPS Founders’ Symposium 20232025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®291352026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Eulogy for Dr. Mae King
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944337
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Thank you so much to the clergy and to the Aylesworth and King families.The National Conference of Black Political Scientists is an organization that Dr. Mae Coates King co-founded. As NCOBPS 2021–2023 President, I bring you greetings from Executive Director Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, Vice President Dr. Emmitt Riley, and the entire Executive Council and leadership.Some of Dr. King’s achievements that you’ve heard during our memorial ceremony you will hear over again from those of us in attendance. Our goal is to testify to her triumphs and the courageous ethical risks she took. Despite her work not being adequately cited and engaged in the mainstream parts of the field of political science among her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallEulogy for Dr. Mae King2025-01-01text/htmlen-USEulogy for Dr. Mae King2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®201322026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Resolution: A Tribute to and in Recognition of Dr. Mae C. King
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944338
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Whereas Dr. Mae C. King, Professor Emerita of Political Science at Howard University, joined the American Political Science Association as a member in 1963; she earned her PhD in political science in 1968 from the University of Idaho and joined the American Political Science Association (APSA) as a Professional Staff Associate from 1969 to 1975, becoming the first African American individual and the first Woman to work on the APSA staff.1During her time at APSA, Dr. King supported multiple newly formed programs and committees, including the APSA Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, the Black Graduate Fellowship (currently the Diversity
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallResolution: A Tribute to and in Recognition of Dr. Mae C. King2025-01-01text/htmlen-USResolution: A Tribute to and in Recognition of Dr. Mae C. King2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®67222026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944339
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It seems that the next election is ever looming in U.S. political culture. With the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections and the 2022 midterm elections now in hindsight, Christopher T. Stout’s The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals succeeds at being both timely and timeless scholarship. This work is well researched and data-rich, which helps because, in this post-Obama, MAGA era where insurrections happen and defeated former presidents attempt to overturn the results of an election, Stout’s thesis sets a tall order for itself. Exploring themes of class, race consciousness, the notion of linked fates, and racial polarization, The Case for Identity Politics queries
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallThe Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout (review)2025-01-01text/htmlen-USThe Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout (review)2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®111212026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944340
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Racial Innocence by Tanya Katerí Hernández is a transformational gift to anyone interested in centering Blackness and challenging Latinidad for practicing solidarity within Latinx communities and beyond. Through poignant and heart-wrenching examples of discrimination against Black Latinos by other non-Black Latinos in housing, employment, and law enforcement, Hernández illuminates the injustices that fall under the radar when we assume Latinos are a racial monolith. Hernández’s sobering account painstakingly bursts the bubble of alleged “racial innocence” or mythologies based on the idea that since Latino people are racially mixed they could not possibly be implicated in anti-Black racism. Hernández reminds the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallRacial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández (review)2025-01-01text/htmlen-USRacial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández (review)2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®108732026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994 ed. by Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944341
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Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994, edited by Derilene Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye, is a testimony to the survival and resilience of South African people. Contained in its pages are essays that grapple with these themes through a diversity of mediums of creative expression, including art, film, protest, academic research, and remembrance. The editors have categorized the essays into analyses of visual art and identity, healing, unsettling laughter, and critiques of white writing. The volume concludes with a postscript composed of reflections from undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallSasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994 ed. by Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye (review)2025-01-01text/htmlen-USSasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994 ed. by Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye (review)2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®95122026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition by Joshua Myers (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944342
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Joshua Myers’s Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition is a brilliant intellectual biography and meditation on the life and radical praxis of one of the greatest thinkers in the twentieth century. Myers invites us into a communal conversation, to think with Robinson, to slowly and carefully engage not only in the contours of his life but with the material conditions that shaped and informed his consciousness into a critical consciousness and defined the lines of inquiry, which animated his incredible body of work. Myers artfully gathers us into the communal practice of Black Study, in the ways of thinking and being that “reveal the particular sites of [Robinson’s] epistemic rupture” with the West
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallCedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition by Joshua Myers (review)2025-01-01text/htmlen-USCedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition by Joshua Myers (review)2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®129602026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01The Politics of Being Afro-Latino/Latina: Ethnicity, Colorism, and Political Representation in Washington, D.C. by Isreal G. Mallard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944343
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In this work, Isreal G. Mallard explores the political activity of Afro-Latino populations in the United States. His inquiry is motivated by two questions: (1) What social/racial factors influence the electability of light-skin/dark-skin self-identified Afro-Latinos running for political office? (2) How do social/racial factors influence the pathway to political office for self-identified Afro-Latinos? Focusing his study on Washington, DC, Mallard uses a qualitative design to construct his argument. His data consist of interviews with thirteen self-identified Afro-Latino/a participants selected through a snowball sample covering the areas of ethnicity/identity, pigmentocracy, and political representation. He places
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/889/image/coversmallThe Politics of Being Afro-Latino/Latina: Ethnicity, Colorism, and Political Representation in Washington, D.C. by Isreal G. Mallard (review)2025-01-01text/htmlen-USThe Politics of Being Afro-Latino/Latina: Ethnicity, Colorism, and Political Representation in Washington, D.C. by Isreal G. Mallard (review)2025-01-012025TWOProject MUSE®74232026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-01-01