Can We All Get Along?: Racial And Ethnic Minorities In American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics)

Rodney King framed what might be called the enduring question of American politics from the Founding "Can we all get along?" In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery, issues of liberty, equality, and community continue to challenge Americans. Paula McClain and Joseph Stewart combine traditional elements of political science analysis—history, Constitutional theory, institutions, political behavior, and policy actors—with a thorough-going survey of the political status of four African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians. They show similarities and differences in these groups' political action and experience, and point the way toward coalition, competition, and consensus building in the face of ongoing conflict.

neth J. Meier) by the American Political Science Association's Section on Public Administration for the best paper presented at the 1991 conference and an AP® Special Recognition Award by the College Board Southwestern Regional Office in 2000.Despite all of this professional activity, Stewart is probably best known for his alleged sense of humor, which has been manifest in an article in which the discipline of political science is pre­sented as a “rotisserie” game (with Kenneth J. Meier, 1992, "Rotisserie Political Science," PS: Politi­cal Science & Politics , 25, 565-568), a convention paper “analyzing” the work of “Texas' fastest rising Jewish country music star” and current candidate for governor of Texas, Kinky Friedman, and appearances on round­tables and panels at professional meetings, such as "The Contributions of Elvis Presley to the Study of Political Science," “Country Music and Political Science,” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Political Science.”