Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-453) and index.
Foreword / William H. Boone -- Introduction: The 104th Congress - The Perspective of the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus / Donald L. Payne -- Prologue: The Conceptualization of a Variable / Kenneth A. Jordan and Modibo M. Kadalie -- 1. Overview / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 2. The Political Context Variable: The Transformation Politics of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Presidencies / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 3. African American Politics: A Case Study Methodological Approach / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 4. African American Race Relations Politics: The Failure of Empirical Methodology / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 5. African American Politics and the Constitution: Neoconservative, Neoliberal, and African American Conservative Theories of Constitutional Inequality / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 6. African American Political Culture: The Moral Voice and Perspective in the Recent Urban Riots / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 7. African American Political Socialization: The Protest Resignations of Councilpersons Jerome Woody and Renee Baker / Hanes Walton, Jr., Oliver Jones, Jr. and Pearl K. Ford -- 8. African American Political Opinion: Volatility in the Reagan-Bush Era / Michael C. Dawson -- 9. African American Pressure Group Politics: The Reformulation of a Reply Brief to the Supreme Court by J. Clay Smith, Jr., Robert Goodwin, and Elias Blake / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 10. An African American Grass Roots Political Campaign: Campaign Manager Richard Smiley and Candidate Barbara J. Mobley / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 11. The African American Republican Vote in a Southern Mayoral Election / Hanes Walton, Jr., LaShawn Warren and Damon E. Elmore -- 12. African American Republican Partisanship: Alignment and Dealignment / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 13. African American Political Party Conversion: The Impact of the Clarence Thomas Nomination on the Party Partisanship of the Residents of his Hometown / Hanes Walton, Jr., LaShawn Warren and Damon E. Elmore -- 14. Southern Comfort: The Impact of David Duke's Campaigns on African American Politics / Hanes Walton, Jr. and Maxie Foster -- 15. African American Republican Congressional Candidates and Money: The Role of the Republican Party PACs / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 16. African American Female Senatorial Candidates: Twin Assets or Double Liabilities? / Katherine Tate -- 17. African Americans, H. Ross Perot, and Image Politics: The Nature of African American Third-Party Politics / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 18. An African American Presidential Candidate: The Failed Presidential Campaign of Governor L. Douglas Wilder / Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber -- 19. African Americans and the Clinton Presidency: Political Appointments as Social Justice / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 20. African Americans and the Resurgent Republican Congress: The Duality of Transformation / Hanes Walton, Jr., Roosevelt Green, Jr. and Ronald D. Clark -- 21. African American Mayors and National Urban Policy: The Fiscal Politics of Urban Federalism / Hanes Walton, Jr. and Marion E. Orr -- 22. African American Foreign Policy: From Decolonization to Democracy / Hanes Walton, Jr. -- 23. African Americans, Political Context, and the Clinton Presidency: The Legacy of the Past in the Future / Hanes Walton, Jr. and William O. Generett, Jr