What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People?

Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books, including John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance and Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same, both published by SUNY Press. Cedric Johnson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics. Robert G. Newby is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Central Michigan University.

• List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionRobert C. SmithPart I 1. Our Tallest Tree: An Essay toward a Biography of Ronald WaltersRobert G. Newby2. The Groundbreaking Wichita Sit-In Movement: An Essay in Appreciation of Ronald Walters’ Scholarly and Political ContributionsAldon Morris3. ReflectionsRonald W. WaltersPart II 4. The Black Science in Political ScienceKatherine Tate5. Black Intellectuals in the Age of New Democratic Politics: Reflections on Ronald Walters, the Maryland YearsCedric JohnsonPart III6. A Modest Proposal: A Call for Leadership Specialization and the Recognition of Multiple Black ConstituenciesAndra Gillespie7. Still Waters Run Deep: Synthesizing Ronald Walters’ Theses on Black Leadership and Black NationalismErrol HendersonPart IV 8. Usurper-in-Chief? White Nationalism, the Tea Party Movement, and President Barack ObamaAdolphus G. Belk Jr.9. White Nationalism, Black Interests, and Contemporary American PoliticsCorey CookPart V 10. Ronald Walters and the District of Columbia: Action Research and the Odyssey of the Capital ColonyLenneal J. Henderson11. Ronald Walters as a Political Empowerment Theorist: The Concept of Leverage StrategiesHanes Walton Jr.Part VI 12. Ronald Walters: Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy JusticeKarin L. Stanford13. Ronald Walters: Pan Africanism and International Struggles for Social JusticeHorace Campbell14. Reparations, Citizenship, and the Politics of IdentityCharles P. HenryPart VII 15. Civil Rights and the First Black President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Racial EqualityRonald W. Walters with the assistance of Robert C. SmithAfterwordRobert C. SmithAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex