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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
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