Although the Reconstruction of the Southern States in the wake of the Civil War got off to a promising start, it failed to deliver African Americans from disenfranchisement and discrimination. Valelly considers this failure & why the second 'reconstruction' of the mid 20th centu…
Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of the Southern Pol…
"At last ... the public hearing she was denied ... These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems that bedevil electoral politics. Anyone who cares about the mechanisms of democracy should think you stand: it's all here, to argue or agr…
The ideas of the world-renowned Black American are represented on the arts, civil rights, socialism, and other topics.