What's Going On?

Katherine Tate is a professor of political science and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Black Faces in the Mirror and From Protest to Politics.

• Preface 1. What's Going On? The State of Public Opinion in Black America 2. Welfare Reform and Shifts in Black Opinion on Welfare Policies 3. Shifts in Black Support for Government Aid to Blacks and Minorities 4. Black Opinion on Crime Control Policies 5. Education Policies, School Vouchers, and Busing in Black America 6. Social Issues and Rights for Women and for Gays and Lesbians in Black America 7. Black Opinion on Immigration and the Environment 8. Blacks on U.S. Foreign Policy 9. Black Political Incorporation and Public Opinion Appendix: List of Public Opinion Data Sets References Index

Tate's data are extensive, interesting, and informative, and provide for a compelling story of how blacks think about politics, yesterday and today ... Tate's work should become seminal reading for those interested in public opinion, and race and politics. Political Science Quarterly An intriguing work drawing together more than thirty years of public opinion data from a variety of sources ... provides an engaging discussion of trends in Black public opinion over the past few decades and a promising conceptual framework for future research in this area. National Political Science Review