Hanes Walton, Jr. : Architect of the Black Science of Politics

Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton’s corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science. It concludes with an analysis of how the subfield has evolved since Walton’s pioneering work. Preface 5 Contents 7 About the Author 8 Chapter 1: Introduction 9 The Making of a Black Scholar 10 The Length and Breadth of the Work 14 Chapter 2: Black Politics 17 Political Parties 17 The Native Son Presidential Candidates and the Democratic Party 25 The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. 28 The Institutionalization of the Civil Rights Movement 32 African Politics 37 Textbooks 44 Reference Works 47 Bibliographic Studies 49 Political Science and Race: A Historiography and a Reformulation 52 Political Behaviorism 55 Chapter 3: Black Science 70 Chapter 4: Conclusion 80 Appendix 88 Hanes Walton, Jr. 88 Bibliography 88 Books 88 Selected Articles and Book Chapters 89 Selected Bibliography 92 Index 96 Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject. The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton's corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science. It concludes with an analysis of how the subfield has evolved since Walton's pioneering work Annotation Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject. The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton's corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 1-8 Black Politics (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 9-61 Black Science (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 63-72 Conclusion (Robert C. Smith)....Pages 73-80 Back Matter ....Pages 81-92