CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Race and Political Scientists -- CHAPTER 1. Still at the Margins: The Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Political Science, 1986-2003 -- CHAPTER 2. The Race Variable and the American Political Science Association's State of the Discipline Reports and Books, 1907-2002 -- CHAPTER 3. African American Political Scientists in Academic Wonderland -- PART TWO Globalization and Transnational Politics -- CHAPTER 4 Black Politics in Latin America: An Analysis of National and Transnational Politics -- CHAPTER 5 Globalization and the Study of Development -- PART THREE Civic Engagement and Voting -- CHAPTER 6 Political Science and the Study of African American Public Opinion -- CHAPTER 7 A Black Gender Gap? Continuity and Change in Attitudes toward Black Feminism -- CHAPTER 8 Going It Alone: Black Women Activists and Black Organizational Quiescence -- CHAPTER 9 Political Scientists and the Activist-Technocrat Dichotomy: The Case of John Aubrey Davis -- PART FOUR Political Institutions -- CHAPTER 10 Dimensions of Representation and the Congressional Black Caucus -- CHAPTER 11 Toward a Critical Race Theory in Political Science: A New Synthesis for Understanding Race, Law, and Politics -- CHAPTER 12 Presidential Leadership and the Politics of Race: Stereotypes, Symbols, and Scholarship -- PART FIVE The Subfields -- CHAPTER 13 Comparative Politics and Asia: Contesting Hegemonic Inter- and Intra-Disciplinary Boundaries -- CHAPTER 14 Race and the Problem of Equity in the Administrative State: Implications for Political Science Theory and Methods -- CHAPTER 15 Race and the City: The View from Two Political Science Journals -- CHAPTER 16 Navigating the Muddy Waters of the Mainstream: Tracing the Mystification of Racism in International Relations.

CHAPTER 17 A Critical Review of American Political Institutions: Reading Race into the Constitutional "Silence" on Race -- CHAPTER 18 Political Science Confronts Afro-America: A Reconsideration -- Contributors -- Index.