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Explore the political behaviors of African Americans in: The African American Electorate

Washington DC (March 28, 2012) ― The election of America's first African American president brought some interesting questions to fore: How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective throughout history, in persuading people to vote? The African American Electorate: A Statistical History, new from CQ Press, answers these questions and many others.

This important pioneering resource brings together all the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present, and traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans. It also provides election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span and explores the variables that influence the political behaviors of the African American community.

Combining insightful narrative and graphics, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history. This distinctive and vital resource belongs on the shelves of all public and academic libraries.

Hanes Walton, Jr. is Professor of Political Science and senior research scientist in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.

Donald R. Deskins, Jr. is a political geographer and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Michigan.

Sherman C. Puckett is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Michigan in urban and regional planning and a lecturer at the University of Michigan.

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CQ Press is a leading publisher of books, directories, reference publications, and textbooks focusing on U.S. government, world affairs, communication, political science, and business, with a growing focus on digital content. Based in Washington DC, CQ Press is an imprint of SAGE, the world's leading independent academic and professional publisher (www.sagepublications.com), and is known in classrooms, libraries and professional markets for its objectivity, breadth and depth of coverage, and editorial excellence. www.cqpress.com

The African American Electorate

July 2012800 pages$350.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87289-508-9
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