The Politics of Race: African Americans and the Political System Book

	About the Contributors
	Preface
1	The Politics of Race	5
2	Rejection and Protest: An Historical Sketch	27
3	Race and the Crisis of the American Spirit	46
4	Postmodern Racial Politics in the United States: Difference and Inequality	55
5	Malcolm X and the Revival of Black Nationalism	71
6	False Prophet: The Rise of Louis Farrakhan	77
7	The New Black Conservatives	85
8	The Dual Agenda of African American Organizations since the New Deal: Social Welfare Policies and Civil Rights	115
9	The Democrats and Liberal Guilt	134
10	The 1992 Republican "Tent": No Blacks Walked In	152
11	In Quest of African American Political Woman	169
12	Gender, Race, and the State Legislature: A Research Note on the Double Disadvantage Hypothesis	185
13	The Congressional Black Caucus Revolution	199
14	Strategies for Increasing Black Representation in Congress	212
15	What Color Is Your Gerrymander? The Constitution and White Minority Districts	226
16	The Politics of Race: From Kennedy to Reagan	233
17	The Reagan Attack on Race Liberalism	253
18	The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Racism: Compromises on the Way to Democracy	271
19	The New Supreme Court and the Politics of Racial Equality	278
20	Beyond the Rodney King Story: Police Conduct and Community Relations	292
21	Can Black Candidates Win Statewide Elections?	307
22	The End of the Rainbow: America's Changing Urban Politics	325
23	Race and the American City	334
24	How the Rioters Won	343
25	The Urban Underclass and the Poverty Paradox	359
26	How the Great Society "destroyed the American family"	375
27	The Clinton Administration and African-Americans	385
	About the Editor	399