Contours of African American Politics

Georgia A. Persons is professor of political science in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. She has written articles for Policy Studies Review , the National Civic Review , and Phylon , and is also the former series editor of Transaction's National Political Science Review. In addition she is the author of The Making of Energy and Telecommunications Policy .

• IV: Race and Representation; The 1990s Round of Redistricting: A Schematic Outline of Some Key Features; Minority Representation and the Tradeoffs in Legislative Redistricting; The Impact of Redistricting on African-American Representation in the U.S. Congress and State Legislatures in the 1990s; Social Movement Theory in the Examination of Mobilization in a Black Community: The 1991 Sacramento Redistricting Project; The Voting Rights Act and Judicial Elections: A Horse of a Different Color or Canary in the Coal Mine?; The Recruitment of Blacks to State Courts of Last Resort; African-American Presidential Convention and Nomination Politics: Alan Keyes in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primaries and Convention; Call and Response: The Politics of Speaking to and for Black America; The Messages and the Messengers: Opinions from the Million Men Who Marched; V: Legacies: Strategic Black Politics and Black Political Science; The Study of African-American Politics as Social Danger: Clues from the Disciplinary Journals; The Politics of The Black “Nation” A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective: Honoring the Scholarship of Matthew Holden; Introduction to the Symposium: The Politics of the Black “Nation” Revisited; The Politics of the Black “Nation”: Significance and Context of the Book; In the Mirror of Time: Unbound Interests and the New Black Leadership: A Retrospective Critique of Essay I: “Centrifugal Influences on Black Politics”; Clientage, Opposition, and Withdrawal: Three Forms of External Politics: A Reexamination of Essay II; Revisiting Black Nationalist Politics: An Assessment of Essay III: “Politics as a Collective Psychiatry: A Critique of Withdrawal”; Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Comments on Essay IV: “Toward Black Regrouping”; Toward Black Regrouping: Comments on Essay V: “The Next Five Years: I. Morale and Objective Capacity”; Politics and Organizational Options: Comments on Essay VI: “The Next Five Years: II. Organizational Options”; Modifying Political Tactics: Comments on Essay VII: “The Next Five Years: III. Modifying Political Tactics”; Honoring the Founding Role and Scholarship of Mack H. Jones; An Assessment of the Works of Mack Jones on the Development of Black Political Science: Introduction to a Symposium; Reflections on Atlanta University Political Science; The Epistemological Quest of Mack Jones; Observations on the Political Thought and Methodology of Mack H. Jones; VI: Black Politics and the Dynamics of Social Change; Erasing Racial Justice or How Liberals Become Black; Black No More: Race Construction and the 2000 Census; Race and The Green Mile; “Whosoever Will”: Black Theology, Homosexuality, and the Black Political Church; A Radical Critique of the Reparations Movement