Race And American Political Development

Author : Joseph E. Lowndes,Julie Novkov,Dorian T. Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136086427

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Race and American Political Development by Joseph E. Lowndes,Julie Novkov,Dorian T. Warren Pdf

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 organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment’s dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention.

Author : Richard M. Valelly,Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191086977

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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development by Richard M. Valelly,Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman Pdf

Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.

Author : Zachary Callen,Philip Rocco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political development
ISBN : 9780812252088

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American Political Development and the Trump Presidency by Zachary Callen,Philip Rocco Pdf

"This is a book about Trump's presidency that makes a brief for the subfield of American political development (in the field of political science). Four factors are considered in this book: (1) the American political party system and partisanship; (2) the saliency of race; (3) the role of the state in American politics; and (4) the fate of democracy"--

Author : Steven White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108427630

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World War II and American Racial Politics by Steven White Pdf

Examines the myriad consequences of World War II for racial attitudes and the presidential response to civil rights.

Author : Ronald Kahn,Ken I. Kersch
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700614394

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The Supreme Court and American Political Development by Ronald Kahn,Ken I. Kersch Pdf

This innovative volume explores the evolution of constitutional doctrine as elaborated by the Supreme Court. Moving beyond the traditional "law versus politics" perspective, the authors draw extensively on recent studies in American Political Development (APD) to present a much more complex and sophisticated view of the Court as both a legal and political entity. The contributors--including Pam Brandwein, Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, Ronald Kahn, Tom Keck, Ken Kersch, Wayne Moore, Carol Nackenoff, Julie Novkov, and Mark Tushnet--share an appreciation that the process of constitutional development involves a complex interplay between factors internal and external to the Court. They underscore the developmental nature of the Court, revealing how its decision-making and legal authority evolve in response to a variety of influences: not only laws and legal precedents, but also social and political movements, election returns and regime changes, advocacy group litigation, and the interpretive community of scholars, journalists, and lawyers. Initial chapters reexamine standard approaches to the question of causation in judicial decision-making and the relationship between the Court and the ambient political order. Next, a selection of historical case studies exemplifies how the Court constructs its own authority as it defines individual rights and the powers of government. They show how interpretations of the Reconstruction amendments inform our understanding of racial discrimination, explain the undermining of affirmative action after Bakke, and consider why Roe v. Wade has yet to be overturned. They also tell how the Court has collaborated with political coalitions to produce the New Deal, Great Society, and Reagan Revolution, and why Native Americans have different citizenship rights than other Americans. These contributions encourage further debate about the nature and processes of constitutional change and invite APD scholars to think about law and the Court in more sophisticated ways.

Author : Jessica Blatt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812250046

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Race and the Making of American Political Science by Jessica Blatt Pdf

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that racial thought was central to the academic study of politics in the United States at its origins, shaping the discipline's core categories and questions in fundamental and lasting ways.

Author : Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521547644

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The Search for American Political Development by Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek Pdf

Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.

Author : Megan Ming Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037106

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Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis Pdf

This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.

Author : Richardson Dilworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135853174

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The City in American Political Development by Richardson Dilworth Pdf

There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban centers more than a century before the American Revolution. Yet despite their estimable size and prevalence in the United States, city government and politics has been a woefully neglected topic within the recent study of American political development. The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building. Each chapter shows explicitly how the American city demonstrates durable shifts in governing authority throughout the nation’s history. By filling an important gap in scholarship the book will thus become an indispensable part of the American political development canon, a crucial component of graduate and undergraduate courses in APD, urban politics, urban sociology, and urban history, and a key guide for future scholarship.

Author : Richardson Dilworth,Timothy P. R. Weaver
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812297171

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How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development by Richardson Dilworth,Timothy P. R. Weaver Pdf

A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development. The essays in How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples—some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support of big-city political machines that were hardly liberal when it came to questions of race in their home districts; and the intersection of national education policy, local school politics, and the politics of immigration. Essays compare the ways in which national urban policies have taken different shapes in countries similar to the United States, namely, Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume also presents case studies of city-based political development in Chile, China, India, and Africa—areas of the world that have experienced a more recent form of urbanization that feature deep and intimate ties and similarities to urban political development in the Global North, but which have occurred on a broader scale. Contributors: Daniel Béland, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Robert Henry Cox, Richardson Dilworth, Jason Hackworth, Marcus Anthony Hunter, William Hurst, Sally Ford Lawton, Thomas Ogorzalek, Eleonora Pasotti, Joel Rast, Douglas S. Reed, Mara Sidney, Lester K. Spence, Vanessa Watson, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Amy Widestrom.

Author : Linda Faye Williams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271046724

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Constraint of Race by Linda Faye Williams Pdf

Author : Ryan A. Quintana
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469641072

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Making a Slave State by Ryan A. Quintana Pdf

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals. Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

Author : Carol A. Horton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195349466

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Race and the Making of American Liberalism by Carol A. Horton Pdf

Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a "color blind" conception of individual rights is innaccurate and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism has alternatively served both to support and oppose racial hierarchy, as well as socioeconomic inequality more broadly. Racial politics in the United States have repeatedly made it exceedingly difficult to establish powerful constituencies that understand socioeconomic equity as vital to American democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism, Horton suggests, will require developing new forms of racial and class identity that support, rather than sabotage this fundamental political commitment.

Author : Christopher Baylor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812249637

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First to the Party by Christopher Baylor Pdf

What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of party transformations. First to the Party concludes that groups like unions and churches, not voters or politicians, are the most consistent influences on party transformation.

Author : Utz McKnight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136978227

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Everyday Practice of Race in America by Utz McKnight Pdf

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives. The discussion ranges over a wide theoretical landscape, bringing to bear the insights of Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and others to the dilemmas represented by the continuing social practice of race. The book lays the theoretical foundation for a politics of critical race practice, it provides insight into why we have sought the legal and formal institutional solutions to racism that have developed since the 1960s, and then describes why these are inadequate to addressing the new practices of racism in society. The work seeks to leave the reader with a sense of possibility, not pessimism; and demonstrates how specific arguments about racial subjection may allow for changing how we live and thereby improve the impact race continues to have in our lives. By developing a new way to critically study how race persists in dominating society, the book provides readers with an understanding of how race is socially constructed today, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of political theory, American politics and race & ethnic politics