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Books by
Ronald Walters
Black Presidential Politics in America
(1989) /
Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora
(1993) /
African American Leadership (1999)
Bibliography of African American
Leadership: An Annotated Guide (2000)
White Nationalism Black Interests
(2003)
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White Nationalism Black Interests
Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community
By Ronald W. Walters The rise of the Conservative movement in the
United States over the last two decades is evident in current
policy, including the passage of the Welfare Reform Act, the
weakening of affirmative action, and the approval of educational
vouchers for private schooling. At the same time, new rules on
congressional redistricting prohibit legislators from
constructing majority black congressional districts, and blacks
continue to suffer disproportionate rates of incarceration and
death-penalty sentencing.
In this significant new study, the
distinguished political scientist Ronald W. Walters argues that
the Conservative movement during this period has had an
inordinate impact on American governing institutions and that a
strong, though very often unstated, racial hostility drives the
public policies put forth by Conservative politicians.
Walters traces the emergence of what he calls
a new
White Nationalism, showing how it fuels the Conservative
movement, invades the public discourse, and generates policies
that protect the interests of white voters at the expense of
blacks and other nonwhites. Using historical and contemporary
examples of White Nationalist policy, as well as empirical
public opinion data, Walters demonstrates the degree to which
this ideology exists among white voters and the negative impact
of its policies on the black community.
White Nationalism Black Interests terms the current period a
" second Reconstruction," comparing the racial
dynamics in the post-Civil Rights era to those of the
first reconstruction following the end if the Civil War.
Walters' analysis of contemporary racial politics is uniquely
valuable to scholars and lay readers alike and is sure to spark
further public debate.
--Publisher
W.E.B. Du Bois
predicted a century ago that the problem of the twentieth
century was the "color line." In this brilliant and
provocative study, noted political scientist Ronald Walters
illustrates how America's color line--structural racism--has
fundamentally shaped U.S. political culture.
White Nationalism Black Interests explains how and why white
racism continues to play a central role in the setting of public
policy and governmental priorities. Richly documented and
well-argued, White Nationalism, Black Interests is
an extraordinary accomplishment in the field of black politics.
--Manning Marable, Director, Center for
Contemporary Black History
With courage and
skill Walters identifies and analyzes the resurgence of
conservatism in America for what it is--the coming to power of a
radical white ethnic nationalist movement that seeks to maintain
the existing racial hierarchy in the midst of widespread
demographic, economic, social and cultural changes.
--Robert C. Smith, author of The
Encyclopedia of African American Politics
[Ronald Walters]
has produced a bold and innovative work which will significantly
enhance and enrich and enliven the current public dialogue and
debate raging in American politics over the partisan directions
which the country should take in both domestic and foreign
affairs. . . . [A] unique and original piece of scholarship. It
is a work without peer [that] will turn heads.
--Hanes Walton, Jr., University of Michigan Published by Wayne State University Press / The
Leonard N. Simons Building / 4809 Woodward Avenue / Detroit, Michigan
48201-1309 / http://wsupress.wayne.edu
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Dr. Ronald Walters is internationally known for
his expertise on the issues of African American leadership and
politics, his writing and his media savvy. Walters carries three
major titles. He is director of the African American Leadership
Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished
Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of
Leadership, and professor in government and politics at the
University of Maryland. For the 2000 presidential election
season, Walters also served as senior correspondent for the
National Newspaper Publishers Association and political analyst
for Black Entertainment Television's Lead Story. |
Walters is a frequent guest on local and major media as
an analyst of African American politics. He has appeared on such
shows as CNN's Crossfire and The Jesse Jackson Show, Lead Story
(BET), CBS News Nightline, NBC Today Show, C-Span, public
television shows such as the Jim Lehrer News Hour and Think
Tank, Evening Exchange, radio shows such as All Things
Considered (NPR), Living Room (Pacifica), and many others. Dr.
Walters also writes a weekly opinion column for newspapers and
Web sites.
Dr. Walters is the author of over 100 articles and six books.
His book,
Black Presidential Politics in America
(SUNY Press,
1989), won the Ralph Bunche Prize, given by the American
Political Science Association and the Best Book award from the
National Conference of Black Political Scientist (NCOBPS).
Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora
(Wayne State University
Press, 1993) also won the NCOBPS Best Book award. His most
recent books are
African American Leadership, (SUNY Press, 1999)
and, with Cedric Johnson,
Bibliography of African American
Leadership: An Annotated Guide (Greenwood Press, 2000).
Walters is the winner of many awards, including a distinguished
faculty award from Howard University (1982), Distinguished
Scholar/Activist Award, The Black Scholar Magazine (1984), W.E.B.
DuBois/Frederick Douglas Award, African Heritage Studies
Association (1983), the Ida Wells Barnett Award, Association of
Black School Educators, (1985), the Fannie Lou Hammer Award,
National Conference of Black Political Scientist (1996),
Distinguished Faculty Contributions to the Campus Diversity,
University of Maryland (1999), and the Ida B. Wells-W.E.B.
DuBois Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the National
Council for Black Studies (March 2000). He was awarded the honor
of "Alumnus of the Year" by the School of
InternationalService of the American University in April 2000.
Walters received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and
Government with Honors from Fisk University (1963) and both his
M.A. in African Studies (1966) and Ph.D. in International
Studies (1971) from American University. He has served as
professor and chair of the political science department at
Howard University, assistant professor and chair of
Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University, and assistant
professor of political science at Syracuse University. He has
also served as visiting professor at Princeton University and as
a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University. He is a former member of the
governing council of the American Political Science Association
and a current member of the Board of Directors of the Ralph
Bunch Institute of the CUNY Graduate School and University
Center. Walters has also served as the senior policy staff
member for Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr. and Congressman
William Gray.
In 1984, Walters served as deputy campaign manager for issues of
the Jesse Jackson campaign for president, and in 1988, he was
consultant for convention issues for the Jackson campaign
directed by former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. He serves as
a senior policy consultant to the W.K.Kellogg Foundation and is
consultant to its Devolution Initiative Project and Director of
its Scholar/Practitioner Program.
Ron Walters, Director African American Leadership Institute (AALI)
and Distinguished Leadership Scholar
301.405.1787 and 301.405.2560 Email:
rwalters@academy.umd.edu
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Dr Ron Walters Dies at 72
Ronald W. Walters, one of the country's
leading scholars of the politics of race, who was a longtime
professor at Howard University and the University of Maryland,
died Friday [September 10, 2010] of cancer at Suburban Hospital
in Bethesda. He was 72.
[Ronald William Walters was
born July 20, 1938, in Wichita, Kansas.. His father was a
musician and had served in the military; his mother was a civil
rights investigator for the state.]
Dr. Walters was both an
academic and an activist, cementing his credentials with his
early involvement in the civil rights movement. In 1958, in his
home town of Wichita, he led what many historians consider the
nation's first lunch-counter sit-in protest. Later, he became a
close adviser to Jesse L. Jackson as one of the principal
architects of Jackson's two failed presidential campaigns. "Ron
was one of the legendary forces in the civil rights movement of
the last 50 years," Jackson said Saturday.
Dr. Walters also helped
develop the intellectual framework of the Congressional Black
Caucus in the 1970s. Some of his political ideas, such as
comprehensive health care and a proposed two-state solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian problem, were viewed as radical. A
quarter-century later, they are part of the intellectual
mainstream. . . . Dr. Walters had recently edited a book about
D.C. politics,
Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia and
was at work on a book about Obama at the time of his death. In
an essay in January, Dr. Walters defended Obama's record in the
face of criticism from the left and the right.— WashingtonPost
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
revelatory book, an open question. |
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The Heart of Whiteness
By Robert
Jensen
The
first, and perhaps most crucial, fear is that of
facing the fact that some of what we white people
have is unearned. It's a truism that we don't really
make it on our own; we all have plenty of help to
achieve whatever we achieve. That means that some of
what we have is the product of the work of others,
distributed unevenly across society, over which we
may have little or no control individually. No
matter how hard we work or how smart we are, we all
know — when we are honest with ourselves — that we
did not get where we are by merit alone. And many
white people are afraid of that fact.
A second fear is crasser: White people's fear of
losing what we have — literally the fear of losing
things we own if at some point the economic,
political, and social systems in which we live
become more just and equitable.—Robert
Jensen
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The White Masters of the
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From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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