African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008 - Softcover

Nealy, Lisa Nikol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761844570 ISBN 13: 9780761844570

Publisher: University Press of America, 2008

Synopsis

This is a book about the American political system and the phenomenon of religious African American women voters, offering a new theory, racializing religiosity. This theory attempts to explain the increased progressive political action of religious African American women voters in United States presidential elections from 1964 through 2008.

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About the Author:

Dr. Lisa Nikol Nealy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clark-Atlanta University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and scholarly journal articles. She has also authored web articles on religiosity, presidential elections, black reparations, jail suicides, African American women's voting behavior, interest group politics, and research methodology.

Review:

This is the first major book-length study that I have seen in my career devoted specifically to African American female voters, despite the fact that since the rise and evolution of political behavioralism in Political Science in the sixties, which uncovered in numerous scholarly and academic articles and book chapters, African American women simply out-protested, out-participated, out-organized, out-mobilized, out-registered, and out-voted African American males. These political differences among African American females and males have long been a political reality that no one, Black or White, was willing to research and write about, except in articles and book chapters. But these differences were far richer than the literature on the topic has ever been able to address until now. In addition, the promise of such a topical study was greater than most have conceived of until this magisterial work of Professor Lisa Nikol Nealy's. . . .[O]ne cannot read this book with all of its creativity and innovations and vast arrays of new findings and not leave without understanding that the young scholar who produced this exceptional first book will surely continue to make major contributions to the discipline. One sees in this work a scholar with very big ideas, and the skills and talents to produce stunning books. This is a book that I would highly recommend to my colleagues and the discipline. (National Political Science Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0761844570
• ISBN 13: 9780761844570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314