The committee on the status of blacks in the profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of African Americans within the discipline.
Committee Members:
Term expiring August 31, 2021
- Alice Jackson, Morgan State University
- Candis W. Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Term
expiring September 2022 (after the annual meeting)
- Jamila Michener, Cornell University
- Ismail
White, Duke University, Chair
- Ray Block, Pennsylvania State University
Term
expiring September 2023 (after the annual meeting)
- Ray Block, Pennsylvania State University
Recent Committee Projects and Activities:
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Previous Panels or Roundtables at the APSA Annual Meeting:
- 2018 Author Meets Critic: New Books on Black Politics and Race
- 2017 Roundtable: The
Black Agenda and the Trump Administration
- 2017 Author Meets Critics: Melanye Price's The Race Whisperer: Barack
Obama and the Political Uses of Race
- 2016 Panel: To Hell and Back: Black Political Scientists, Dispossession, Disability, and the Quotidian Violence of Academic Life
- 2015 Roundtable: From Hurricane Katrina to Ferguson: Environmental Justice, the State, & Violence
- 2014 Panel: (Non)Traditional Methods in the Study of Black Politics: Voices from the Field
- 2013 Panel: On the Passing of Friends and Intellectuals: A Panel in Honor of the Life and Work of Hanes Walton Jr., Richard Iton, and William E. 'Nick' Nelson
- 2011 Panel: The Status of Blacks in the Profession
- 2010 Panel: 'New' Black Politics Revisited: Deracialization and 'Post-Racial' Black Leadership
- 2009 Panel: Black Faculty Recruitment and Retention: The Impact of the Economic Crisis
- 2008 Panel: Status of Diversity Profiles in the Profession