Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : In search of black and multiracial politics in America / Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
  • Afro-Caribbean immigrants, African Americans, and the politics of group identity / Reuel Rogers
  • Racial polarization, reaction to urban conditions, and the approval of Black mayors / Susan Howell
  • Interminority relations in urban settings : lessons from the Black-Puerto Rican experience / José E. Cruz
  • Conflict or cooperation? Africans and African Americans in multiracial America / Akwasi B. Assensoh
  • Immigrants, Blacks, and cities / Michael Jones-Correa
  • The portrayal of Black America in the mass media : perception and reality / Brigitte L. Nacos and Natasha Hritzuk
  • Who votes in multiracial America? An analysis of voting registration and turnout by race and ethnicity, 1990-1996 / Pie-te Lien
  • Congress, race, and anticrime policy / Marion Orr
  • Representation, ethnicity, and Congress : Black and Hispanic representatives and constituencies / James W. Endersby and Charles E. Menifield
  • Pride and pragmatism : two arguments for the diversification of party interests / Lawrence J. Hanks
  • Comparing support for affirmative action among four racial groups / Pie-te Lien and M. Margaret Conway
  • Expressions of racial consciousness in the African American community : data from the Million Man March / Joseph McCormick 2d, and Sekou Franklin
  • War, political cycles, and the pendulum thesis : explaining the rise of Black nationalism, 1840-1996 / Errol A. Henderson
  • Deconstruct to reconstruct : African American women in the post-civil rights era / Mamie Locke
  • Epilogue : Black and multiracial politics : a look ahead / Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh.