Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics

Georgia A. Persons, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Editor’s Introductory Note; Part I. The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics: A Symposium; The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics; Race and Politics Matter: Black Urban Representation and Social Spending during the Urban Crisis; A New Labor Movement? Race, Class, and the Missing Intersections between Black and Labor Politics; Beyond the Myth of the White Middle-Class: Suburban Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement in America; AIDS, Context, and Black Politics; Permanent Outsiders: Felon Disenfranchisement and The Breakdown of Black Politics; Theorizing Black Girl Politics and the Politicizing of Socialization; “Whosoever Will”: Black Theology, Homosexuality, and the Black Political Church; Race and Democracy in the Americas; Race, Class, and the Political Behavior of African American Young Adults, 1960-1998; Let Men be Men: A Gendered Analysis of Black Ideological Response to Familial Policies; Part II. Maximizing the Black Vote: Recognizing the Limits of Electoral Politics; The Impoverished “Culture vs. Structure” Debate on the Woes of Young Black Males and Its Remedy; Power and Race in Cross-Group Coalitions; Testing the Effects of the Otherworldly and This worldly Orientations on Black Political Attitudes; Federal Enforcement of Voting Rights: Party Competition, Disenfranchisement, and Remedial Measures; The Deck and the Sea: The African American Vote in the Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004; The Voice of the Congressional Black Caucus in American Foreign Policy; Just Another Interest Group? The Organized Representation of Ethnic Groups in American National Politics; Deracialization and White Crossover Voting in State Legislative Elections; A Systematic Analysis of the Deracialization Concept; Conservatives, Federalism and the Defense of Inequality; Rhetoric, Responsiveness, and Policy Moods: Testing the Issue of Social Welfare; Race and Democracy in the Americas War and Morality: An Examination of African Americans, the Republican Party, and the 2004 Presidential Election: A Research Note ; Race, Preemption, and Autonomy in the District of Columbia; BOOK FORUM: Book Reviews