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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.44,Issue2SI,P.123-133

语言

英文

关键字

party politics; electoral politics; urban politics; disfranchisement; Obama; voting rights; grassroots activism; Republican; Democrat; voting realignment; HOLLOW-PRIZE; MOVEMENT; FREEDOM

作者单位

[Materson, Lisa G.] Univ Calif Davis, Hist, Davis, CA 95616 USA. [Trotter, Joe William, Jr.] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Hist & Social Justice, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. Materson, LG (reprint author), Univ Calif Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA.; Trotter, JW (reprint author), Carnegie Mellon Univ, 5000 Forbes Ave,Baker Hall 240, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. E-Mail: lgmaterson@ucdavis.edu; trotter@andrew.cmu.edu

摘要

This article reviews the literature on black politics in the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that with notable exceptions, the expanding corpus of scholarship on black politics has largely focused on grassroots organizing and social movements, making electoral politics a secondary force in the history of African Americans. This critique of recent scholarship frames and introduces four articles in this special section that carry forward research on urban electoral politics as a central feature of black freedom struggles. By looking at the level of local urban party politics, this new work, this article asserts, challenges familiar narratives about the history of black electoral politics, including the steadfastness of black Republican loyalty before the Depression, the characterization of the black struggle against disfranchisement as a southern story, and the representation of black electoral leadership as middle class.