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Hanes Walton, Jr.: Architect of the Black Science of Politics

By Robert C. Smith

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot
Year
2018
ISBN
978-3-319-75570-0, 978-3-319-75571-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1083642 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
IX, 92\99
Time added
2018-08-15 07:07:45
Political Science and International Relations; US

Description

Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton’s corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science. It concludes with an analysis of how the subfield has evolved since Walton’s pioneering work. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 1-8 Black Politics (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 9-61 Black Science (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 63-72 Conclusion (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 73-80 Back Matter ....Pages 81-92

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