African American Leadership

Ronald W. Walters is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Government and Politics, and Senior Fellow at the Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of South Africa and the Bomb, Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora, and also published by SUNY Press, Black Presidential Politics in America: A Strategic Approach. He is coeditor of Reflections on Black Leadership and Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: Challenge and Change in American Politics. Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See it, Now You Don't, and We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era, and coauthor (with Richard Seltzer) of Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion, all published by SUNY Press.

• List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments PART I. Theory and Research Introduction 1. Social Science Theory and Research on Black Leadership 2. The Negro Leadership Literature 3. Factors Affecting the Transformation from Negro to Black Leadership 4. The Black Leadership Literature 5. Leadership in Negro and Black: Problems in Theory and Research Postscript Appendix A Appendix B PART II. Theory and Praxis Introduction 6. A Paradigm of the Practice of Black Leadership 7. Black Leadership and the Problem of Strategy Shift 8. The National Black Leadership Roundtable 9. Popular Black Struggle: Mass Mobilization in the 1990s 10. Serving the People: Unity and Accountability 11. Leadership Toward What Ends PART III. Conclusion 12. Black Leadership: Toward a Twenty-First Century Praxis Notes Bibliography Index

"This book is the first comprehensive treatment of black leadership to date. It is both historical and contemporary in its breadth and depth." — Rickey Hill, South Carolina State University