Tiffany Willoughby-Herard - Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership

Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment

Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Julia Jordan-Zachery, editors

NationalPoliticalScience Review,Volume 18

A Publication of the NationalConference of Black PoliticalScientists

First published 2016 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2016027268

Names: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973-editor of compilation. | Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron, editor of compilation.

Title: Challenging the legacies of racial resentment : Black health activism, educational justice, and legislative leadership / Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Julia Jordan-Zachery, editors.

Description: New Brunswick [New Jersey] : Transaction Publishers, 2016. | Series: National political science review ; volume 18 | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016027268 print | LCCN 2016047162 ebook | ISBN 9781412864312 paperback : acid-free paper | ISBN 9781412863940

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans--Medical care--Government policy. | Blacks--Medical care--Brazil--Government policy. | Medical policy--United States. | Medical policy--Brazil. | African Americans--Civil rights. | Blacks--Civil rights--Brazil. | African American political activists. | Political activists--Brazil. | African Americans--Education--Political aspects. | United States--Race relations--History--21st century.

Classification: LCC RA448.5.N4 C52 2016 print | LCC RA448.5.N4 ebook | DDC 362.1089/96073081--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027268

ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-6431-2 (pbk)

Managing Editor

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

University of California, Irvine

Associate Managing Editor

Julia Jordan-Zachery

Providence College

Duchess Harris

Macalester College

Sharon Wright Austin

The University of Florida

Angela K. Lewis

University of Alabama, Birmingham

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Keisha Blain

University of Iowa

EDITORIAL BOARD

Melina Abdullah - California State University, Los Angeles

Anthony Affigne - Providence College

Nikol Alexander-Floyd - Rutgers University

Russell Benjamin - Northeastern Illinois University

Nadia Brown - Purdue University

Niambi Carter - Howard University

Cathy Cohen - University of Chicago

Dewey Clayton - University of Louisville

Nyron Crawford - Temple University

Heath Fogg-Davis - Temple University

Pearl Ford Dowe - University of Arkansas

Kamille Gentles Peart - Roger Williams University

Daniel Gillion - University of Pennsylvania

Ricky Green - California State University, Sacramento

Jean-Germain Gros - University of Missouri, St. Louis

Fredrick Harris - Columbia University

Errol Henderson - Pennsylvania State University

Juliet Hooker - University of Texas

Gerald Horne - University of Houston

Zenzele Isoke - University of Minnesota

Charles E. Jones - University of Cincinnati

Brittany Lewis - Bowdoin College

Shelby F. Lewis - African Renaissance and Diaspora Network Board

Keisha Lindsay - University of Wisconsin

Clarence Lusane - American University

Maruice Mangum - Texas Southern University

Lorenzo Morris - Howard University

Richard T. Middleton IV - University of Missouri-St. Louis

Byron D'Andra Orey - Jackson State University

Marion Orr - Brown University

Dianne Pinderhughes - University of Notre Dame

Matt Platt - Morehouse College

H.L.T. Quan - Arizona State University

Boris Ricks - California State University, Northridge

Christina Rivers - DePaul University

Neil Roberts - Williams College

Fatemeh Shafiei - Spelman College

Evelyn Simien - University of Connecticut

Christel Temple - University of Pittsburgh

Darryl Thomas - Pennsylvania State University

Shatema Threadcraft - Rutgers University

Cassandra Veney - Quinnipiac University

Jerry Watts* - CUNY Graduate School

Sherri Wallace - University of Louisville

Christopher Whitt - Augustana College

Tonya Williams - Johnson C. Smith University

EDITORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

La Shonda R. Carter

University of California, Irvine

Armand Demirchyan

University of California, Irvine

*Deceased

Donn Worgs

Zulema Blair

Carley M. Shinault and Richard A.Seltzer

Albert L. Samuels

Kia Lilly Caldwell

Neal Allen

Franoise B. Cromer

Julia Jordan-Zachery

Tommi D. Hayes

Mali Collins

M. Shadee Malaklou

The content of volume 18 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR) reflects the sweep of research questions, themes, and patterns of power relations that underpin the study of Black politics. With the passing of a much-beloved mentor, editor Dr. Michael Mitchell, the journal enters a transitional period of intentional remembrance and deep reflection. Michael joined the ancestors and was followed by so many others without whom we could not have made our way or imagined our roles in the projects of Radical Black Politics: Jerry Watts, Otis Madison, Savannah Carroll, and Cedric Robin-son. Michael Mitchell's mantra of