Menifield / Shaffer Politics in the New South

Representation of African Americans in Southern State Legislatures
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8289-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in African American Studies

Documents political advances made by African Americans in the South over the last twenty-five years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menifield, Charles E.

Shaffer, Stephen D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Introduction to Southern Legislative Coalitions
Stephen D. Shaffer, Charles E. Menifield, Peter W.Wielhouwer and Keesha M. Middlemass
2. African Americans in the Arkansas General Assembly: 1972-1999
Janine A. Parry and William Miller
3. African Americans in the Contemporary Florida Legislature
Steven Tauber
4. Black Representation in Georgia
Peter W.Wielhouwer and Keesha M. Middlemass
5. Representation of African Americans in the Contemporary Mississippi Legislature
Stephen D. Shaffer and Charles E. Menifield
6. Cohesiveness and Diversity among Black Members of the Texas State Legislature
Michelle G. Briscoe 7. An Overview of African American Representation in Other Southern States
Charles E. Menifield, Stephen D. Shaffer and Brandi J. Brassell
8. Politics in the New South: Looking Ahead
Charles E. Menifield, Stephen D. Shaffer and Barbara A. Patrick
References
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles E. Menifield is Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, where he teaches research methods, political statistics, budgeting and finance, and public management information systems. He is the editor of Representation of Minority Groups in the U.S.: Implications for the Twenty-first Century. Stephen D. Shaffer is Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University and the coeditor (with Dale Krane) of Mississippi Government and Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists.