African American Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Race and the Politics of the Exception

   Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy

   By Utz McKnight

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. New Orleans in the Atlantic World

   Between Land and Sea

   Edited by William Boelhower

   The thematic project ‘New Orleans in the Atlantic World’ was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city’s identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does. Balanced...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Post-Racial Society is Here

   Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

   By Wilbur C. Rich

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Conservatism in the Black Community

   To the Right and Misunderstood

   By Angela K. Lewis

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   Conservatism in the Black Community examines the contemporary meanings of Black Conservatism and its influence on black political behavior, providing a basis for understanding the impact this phenomenon has on black political behavior. Lewis analyzes conservatism within the black ideological...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Modern African American Political Thought Reader

   From David Walker to Barack Obama

   Edited by Angela Jones

   The Modern African American Political Thought Reader compiles the work of great African American political thinkers throughout the twentieth century and up through today to show the development of black political thought and trace the interconnectedness of each person's ideas through...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Black Politics Today

   The Era of Socioeconomic Transition

   By Theodore J. Davis Jr.

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   The late 1980s ushered in a new era of black politics, the socioeconomic transition era. Coming on the heels of the protest era and politics era, the current stage is characterized by the emergence of a new black middle class that came of age after the Civil Rights struggle. Although class still...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
8. Whose Black Politics?

   Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

   Edited by Andra Gillespie

   The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, they were raised in integrated neighborhoods and educated in majority white institutions, and they are more likely to...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
9. Race and American Political Development

   Edited by Joseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren

   Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political...

   Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge
10. Black Conservatism

    Essays in Intellectual and Political History

    Edited by Peter Eisenstadt

    Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

    This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James...

    Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge