CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Current Research in Race and Politics
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American Political Science Association
90th Annual Meeting
New York City
September 1-4, 1994
At this year's 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association (APSA), several panels will be devoted to the
study of African, Latino, Native and Asian American communities
in the United States, race, and racial politics. If you're
interested in attending, please contact the APSA at 1527 New
Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20036 * (202) 483-2512.
A brief sampling of these panels follows, beginning with a
description of the roundtable I've organized. Hope to see you
there (your online input is also appreciated!).
This is not an exhaustive list; with more than 600 panels, I've
just sampled those which are most obviously related to race &
politics in the United States, and a few about politics in the
third world. There are many other panels on urban politics,
comparative politics, international affairs, public policy,
social and political theory, gay & lesbian politics, gender
issues, African studies, Latin America, political participation,
etc. which may be of interest to list subscribers. If you need
more information, I encourage you to contact the APSA directly.
Tony Affigne
Dept. of Political Science
Providence College
affigne@brownvm.brown.edu
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RACE AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
The Continuing Search for Theoretical Foundations
(Friday, September 2, 3:30 p.m.)
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Panelists:
Manning Marable, Columbia Univ.
Dianne Pinderhughes, Univ. of Illinois
Don Nakanishi, UCLA
Carlos Munoz, Jr., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley
John Mohawk, SUNY Buffalo
Franke Wilmer, Montana State Univ.
Anthony DeSales Affigne, Providence College
Manuel Avalos, Arizona State Univ.-West
Gerald R. Alfred, Concordia Univ.
During more than 500 years since the Arawak people of the
Caribbean encountered Europeans sailing with Columbus, many of
the most important transformations in American political life
have been driven by conflicts over race. The continued importance
of racial questions throughout the Western Hemisphere suggests
that race relations in the most recent century--since
Emancipation--still bear significant scars from the prior four
centuries of racial dominance by Europeans and European
Americans.
In those 400 years an array of political, military, religious,
cultural, educational, and economic institutions--many of which
still exist--was bent to the task of perpetuating racial
stratification of life in the Americas. At the same time, the
hemisphere's large non-European population has not been
powerless. Extensive interracial contact and interaction have
created a complex and distinct blend of political cultures, born
in Europe, Africa, America itself, and Asia. Everywhere in the
Americas--from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego--it is exactly
this unique melding of multi-racial and multi-cultural influences
which we typically mean when we talk about "American politics."
Scholars who study the political life of America's Native, African,
Latino, and Asian American peoples, however, are often frustrated,
personally and professionally, by the limitations of "normal"
science in addressing questions of race and politics. In the
field of political science, dominant conventional approaches
including behavioral, structural, and political cultural
analysis, have often produced de-racialized models of political
action which systematically understate the potency of racial
hierarchies, while locating both the oppression and the
accomplishments of non-European Americans at the periphery of
historical and explanatory accounts. Consensus on alternative
theoretical and organizational approaches, however--while such
alternatives clearly exist--has not yet emerged.
The primary purpose of this Roundtable is to help bring such
alternatives into focus, with a discussion centered on the value
of three key changes in conventional political scientific
analysis of race and politics:
1) a broad historical context, beginning in 1492 (if not
earlier); most accounts--and American Politics textbooks--
begin with 1776
2) an explicitly hemispheric frame of reference, recognizing
common practices and institutions of racial dominance,
in the past and in the present; Europeans and their white
descendants have *never* been a population majority in
the Americas as a whole
3) an openness to multidisciplinary research agendas and cross
disciplinary theoretical constructions; no single social
science discipline can claim to adequately describe or
explain racial politics
The greatest promise of such "American," historical,
multidisciplinary approaches is that they might structure on
firmer theoretical grounds research efforts in which questions of
race and power were no longer marginal subtexts, but were made
central to the most accurate depictions and explanations of
social and political power in the broader society.
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Other Race & Politics Panels
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: CHALLENGES
AND STRATEGIES
(Thursday, September 1, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Lucius Barker, Stanford Univ.
Michael Preston, Univ. of Southern Calif.
Cheryl Miller, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore
Mack Jones, Prairie View A&M Univ.
Georgia Persons, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Michael Combs, Univ. of Nebraska
James Jennings, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
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ETHNICITY AND RACE IN URBAN REGIMES
(Saturday, September 3, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
William Nelson, Jr., Ohio State Univ.
Martin Gruberg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Sharon Wright, Univ. of Louisville
Kimberly James, Univ. of Michigan
Phil Thompson, Barnard College
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THE IMPACT OF MINORITY MAYORS
(Friday, September 2, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Georgia Persons, Georgia Inst. of Technology
Robert Brown, Univ. of Michigan
Rowan Miranda, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Christopher Mobley, DePaul Univ.
John Pelissero, Loyola Univ. Chicago
David Holian, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Basil Wilson, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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RECONCEPTUALIZING RACE AND POLITICS: MOVEMENTS,
INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES
(Thursday, September 1, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Cathy Cohen, Yale Univ.
Gerald Gamm, Univ. of Rochester
Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College
Mark Warren, Harvard Univ.
Sylvia Tesh, Univ. of Michigan
Bruce Williams, Univ. of Kentucky
Michael Dawson, Univ. of Chicago
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RACE AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
(Friday, September 2, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Manning Marable, Columbia Univ.
Dianne Pinderhughes, Univ. of Illinois
Don Nakanishi, UCLA
Carlos Munoz, Jr., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley
John Mohawk, SUNY Buffalo
Franke Wilmer, Montana State Univ.
Anthony DeSales Affigne, Providence College
Manuel Avalos, Arizona State Univ.-West
Gerald R. Alfred, Concordia Univ.
>> See description above <<
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ETHNICITY, RACE, CONFLICT AND WAR
(Thursday, September 1, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Deborah Ball, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Allan Stam, American Univ.
Sean Byrne, Syracuse Univ.
Michael Gunter, Tennessee Tech
Stuart Kaufman, Univ. of Kentucky
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RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
(Thursday, September 1, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Nancy Kwang Johnson, Cornell Univ.
Jocelyn Sargent, Univ. of Michigan
Gerard Bushell, Columbia Univ.
Joseph Schwartz, Temple Univ.
Abigail Spangler, Columbia Univ.
James Jennings, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
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RACE, CLASS AND PUBLIC POLICY: GOVERNING AND
THE "UNDERCLASS"
(Friday, September 2, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Mitchell Rice, Louisiana State Univ.
Yvette Alex, Indiana Univ.
Susan Clarke, Univ. of Colorado
Bradley Gitz, Lafayette College
Robert Maranto, Lafayette College
Todd Shaw, Univ. of Michigan
Judith Russell, Barnard College
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VOTING SYSTEMS, REDISTRICTING, AND THE REPRESENTATIONAL
STYLES OF BLACKS AND WOMEN
(Friday, September 2, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Twiley Barker, Jr., Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Kenneth Betsalel, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville
Dwight Mullen, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville
Sherral Brown-Guinyard, Univ. of South Carolina
Katheleen Bratton, Univ. of North Carolina
Kerry Haynie, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Richard Clucas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
David Lublin, Harvard Univ.
Lisa Handley, Election Data Services
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THE POLICY AGENDAS OF BLACKS AND JEWISH
AMERICANS IN THE 1990S
(Saturday, September 3, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Michael Dawson, Univ. of Chicago
R. Scott Cooley, Illinois State Univ.
Terri Susan Fine, Univ. of Central Florida
Andrea Simpson, Univ. of Washington
Marcus Pohlmann, Rhodes College
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THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES IN URBAN POLITICS
(Saturday, September 3, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Barbara Ferman, Temple Univ.
William Grimshaw, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Dianne Pinderhughes, Univ. of Illinois
Rodolfo de la Garza, Univ. of Texas
Rufus Browning, San Francisco State Univ.
David Tabb, San Francisco State Univ.
Dale Rogers Marshall, Wheaton College
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THE ROLE OF GENDER AND RACE IN PARTY POLITICS
(Friday, September 2, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Linda Faye Williams, Univ. of Maryland
Kenneth Williams, Michigan State Univ.
Simeon Brodsky, Univ. of Pittsburgh
David Brodsky, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Benjamin Marquez, Univ. of Wisconsin
Toni-Michelle Travis, George Mason Univ.
Mark Rozell, Mary Washington College
Thomas Stewart, Society of Fellows
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THE POLITICS OF NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS IN THE
UNITED STATES
(Saturday, September 3, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Paula McClain, Univ. of Virginia
Pei-te Lien, Univ. of Florida
Louis DeSipio, Wellesley College
Harry Pachon, Claremont Graduate School
Michael Jones-Correa, Harvard Univ.
John Pelissero, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Timothy Krebs, Loyola Univ. Chicago
John Garica, Univ. of Arizona
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ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN TEACHING LATINO POLITICS
(Friday, September 2, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Benjamin Marquez, Univ. of Wisconsin
Anthony DeSales Affigne, Providence College
Dario Moreno, Florida International Univ.
Ronald Schmidt, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach
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Native Americans
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CONSTRUCTING TRIBAL IDENTITY WITHIN THE NATION STATE:
INDIANS IN AMERICA
(Sunday, September 4, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Anne McCulloch, Columbia College
LaDonna Harris, Americans for Indian Opportunity
Stephen Sachs, Indiana Univ.
Ronald Steiner, Chapman Univ.
Darryl Richardson, Chapman Univ.
Paula Arledge, Northeast Louisiana Univ.
David Wilkins, Univ. of Arizona
Margaret Murdock, Univ. of Wyoming
Michael Melody, Barry Univ.
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVE
(Sunday, September 4, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Ted Robert Gurr, Univ. of Maryland
Joanna Drzewienicki, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
Jennifer Arnott, Univ. of Ontario
Greg Poelzer, Univ. of Northern British Columbia
Gerald Alfred, Concordia Univ.
Franke Wilmer, Montana State Univ.
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Politics in the Third World
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INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC REFORMS: THE NEW POLITICS
OF DISTRIBUTION IN LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA
(Thursday, September 1, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Deborah Brautigam, Columbia Univ.
Carol Graham, The Brookings Institution
Douglas Chalmers, Columbia Univ.
Joan Nelson, Overseas Development Council
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REGIME TRANSITION IN ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA
(Thursday, September 1, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Caren Addis, Rutgers Univ.
Craig Arceneaux, Univ. of California, Riverside
Chang-huh Oh, Yeungnam Univ
Ariel Armony, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Robert Chisholm, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Craig Charney, Yale Univ.
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ELECTORAL REFORM AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
(Sunday, September 4, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Fabrice Lehoucq, Christopher Newport Univ.
Scott Mainwaring, Univ. of Notre Dame
Mark Jones, Univ. of Michigan
Matthew Shugart, Univ. of California, San Diego
Daniel Nielson, Univ. of California, San Diego
Jan Sallinger-McBride, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
John Carey, Univ. of Rochester
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REGIME TRANSITIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
(Saturday, September 3, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Orlando Perez, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Andrew Stein, TELCOR Centro Commercial S.A.
John Peeler, Bucknell Univ.
Brooke Harlowe, Susquehanna Univ.
Ilja Luciak, Virginia Poly. Inst.
John Booth, Univ. of North Texas
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Latin America
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POLITICAL CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA
(Saturday, September 3, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists:
Kenneth Coleman, Univ. of New Mexico
Mitchell Seligson, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Joel Jutkowitz
Manuel Antonio Garreton
David Myers, Pennsylvania State Univ.
John Martz, III, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Robert O'Connor, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Carlene Edie, Univ. of Massachusetts
John Booth, Univ. of North Texas
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NEO-POPULISM AND NEO-LIBERALISM IN CONTEMPORARY
LATIN AMERICA
(Sunday, September 4, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists:
Kurt Weyland, Vanderbilt Univ.
Ed Gibson, Univ. of Michigan
Kenneth Roberts, Univ. of New Mexico
Robert Kaufman, Rutgers Univ.
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