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For the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Award Committee: Manuel Avalos, Arizona State University, West Campus, Chair; John G. Bretting, University of Texas, El Paso; Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt University Co-Recipient: Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Brian D. McKenzie Title: Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 (Citation: Countervailing Forces is a sophisticated longitudinal study of black political activism during the post-civil rights era. The succinct and easily readable book combines a rich set of historical and empirical analyses, interpreted through the eyes of cultural insiders, to produce a major contribution to the study of black politics and to American politics more broadly conceptualized. The authors demonstrate the complex interplay between economics and the ability of African Americans to effectively engage in the kinds of political and civic activities that give power and voice to historically disenfranchised groups. Co-Recipient: Mark Q. Sawyer Title: Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Citation: Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba brings an uniquely nuanced interdisciplinary and transnational approach to the study of racial politics by combining ethnographic, interpretive and quantitative methods to examine the persistence of racial inequality in post revolutionary |
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