Lucius J. Barker - Ethnic Politics and Civil Liberties

ETHNIC POLITICS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

National Political Science Review

Volume 3

NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW

EDITOR

Lucius J. Barker

Stanford University

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Michael Preston

University of Southern California

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Paula D. McClain

University of Virginia

EDITORIAL BOARD

Marguerite R. Barnett

University of Houston

Michael Combs

University of Nebraska

William Crotty

Northwestern University

William Daniels

Rochester Institute of Technology

Richard Fenno

University of Rochester

Charles Hamilton

Columbia University

Mathew Holden, Jr.

University of Virginia

Mack Jones

Prarie View A&M University

Dennis Judd

University of Missouri, St. Louis

E. Walter Miles

San Diego State University

William Nelson

Ohio State University

Dianne Pinderhughes

University of Illinois

Jewel Prestage

Prarie View A&M University

Mitchell Rice

Louisiana State University

Robert Salisbury

Washington University

Elsie Scott

Deputy Commissioner of Training, Police Academy, City of New York

Ron Walters

Howard University

Hanes Walton

Savannah State College

Susan Welch

Penn State University

Linda Williams

University of Maryland

Ernest Wilson

University of Michigan

ETHNIC POLITICS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

National Political Science Review

Volume 3

Lucius J. Barker, Editor

First published 1992 by Transaction Publishers

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Contents

Lucius J. Barker

Matthew Holden, Jr.

Paula D. McClain

Mack H. Jones

Augustus J. Jones, Jr., and Clyde Brown

Rebekah Herrick and Susan Welch

Kathie Stromile Golden

Nonna Mayer

F. Chris Garcia

Luis Fraga

Rodolfo O. de la Garza

Ronald J. Schmidt

Maria Torres

Rodney E. Hero

James Jennings

Byran O. Jackson

Aldon Morris

Charles V. Hamilton

Elsie L. Scott

Katherine Tate

Ronald Walters

Kathie Stromile Golden

Hanes Walton, Jr., Leslie Burl McLemore, and C. Vernon Gray

Huey L. Perry

reviewed by Donley T. Studlar

reviewed by Dianne M. Pinderhughes

reviewed by Robert C. Smith

reviewed by James A. Regalado

reviewed by Amal Kawar

reviewed by Daniel McCool

reviewed by Benjamin Marquez

reviewed by Harold W. Moses

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS OFFICERS, 19911992

President

Joseph H. Silver, Sr.

President-Elect

Franklin D. Jones

Membership Secretary

Robert C. Smith

Secretary

Kathie Golden

Treasurer

Sanders Anderson

G. A. P. Inc.

Carolyn Eaglin

Parliamentarian

Nolan Jones

Historians

Jewel W. Prestage

Alex Sillingham

Editor, NPSR*

Matthew Holden, Jr.

Executive Council

Shelia Harmon-Martin

Cassie Osborne

Cheryl Miller

Alvin Thornton

Marvin Haire

Maime E. Locke

Immediate Past President

Dianne M. Pinderhughes

* Contributions for future volumes of the NPSR should be sent to the new editor, Matthew Holden, Jr. (See last page in this volume.)

I approach this third volume of the National Political Science Review (NPSR) with excitement, relief, and anticipation. The excitement is spurred by seeing an ideathe need for the NPSRdevelop from its initial airing into what is increasingly being recognized as a first-rate scholarly publication. The relief and anticipation reflect both sides of the same coin, i.e., relief that this volume represents the end of my three year term as editor; and anticipation, knowing that the NPSR is in the very capable hands of the new editor, Matthew Holden of the University of Virginia. His Editors Note (which follows) certainly indicates an exciting and rich future for the NPSR in the scholarly and professional community.

It has been exciting to see an ideathe NPSRdevelop into a scholarly publication whose continued progress seems certain to bring it into the top ranks of academic scholarship and discourse. Certainly, the two earlier issues, as well as this volume, offer convincing evidence of steadied and clear progress toward this goal. The distinctive character and quality of the NPSR are reflected well in these volumes.

The first volumeNew Perspectives in American Politicsclearly offered fresh insights and perspectives through feature articles on liberalism and black political thought, political movements in American politics, the decisional trends and doctrinal directions of the Rehnquist Court, the impact of campaign canvassing on the black vote, and second-generation educational discrimination. The two symposiaIran-Contra Affair and Black Americans and the Constitutionillustrated well how scholarly insights and perspectives enhance understanding of both current and continuing problems in American politics.

And I am even more attached to the view, as stated in my Editors Note introducing the first volume, that the Book Review Section, under the editorship of Paula D. McClain, represents one of the most thorough and innovative developments of its kind that can be found in any scholarly journal.

Similar observations can be made about the second volume of the NPSRBlack Electoral Politics. Undoubtedly this volume offered some of the most penetrating insights on black politics available in todays popular or professional writing. For example, the need and value of starting an organization to develop a different political science, in contrast to that represented in traditional scholarship, is demonstrated vividly in speeches delivered by two former presidents of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of that organization: Mack Jones of Prairie View A. & M. University, and Dianne Pinderhughes of the University of Illinois (Urbana). And the need and value of this different political science are exemplified well by the scholarly contributions published in that very volume, including feature articles on the impact of racial belief systems and religious guidance on African American political participation; white/black perceptions of the electability of black political candidates; electoral politics, affirmative action, and the Supreme Court; political responses to underemployment among African Americans; and the politics of desegregation in higher education. A major component of this volume, the symposium Big-City Black Mayors: Have They Made A Difference? is very likely to become the most definitive, perceptive, and authoritative reference base from which to continue research on these matters. And once again, the Book Review Section provides an innovative supplement to the central theme of the volumeBlack Electoral Politicsthrough very informative bibliographic and review essays.