How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate: A Statistical History attempts to answer by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span. Combining insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans’ voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America’s political history.
This publication documents the development of the social studies during the past 50 years. This collection of essays updates major trends in history, political science, sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Unlike two earlier collections, this book has an emphasis on the continuing problems, trends, and issues in both the social sciences and social studies and also contains a series of complementing essays describing developments in the teaching of the discipline areas at the elementary and secondary levels. Following an introduction by Donald H. Bragaw, 15 essays by different authors are presented: "Trials of Clio" (David D. Van Tassel); "From Monopoly to Dominance" (Paul Robinson and Joseph M. Kirman); "The Evolving Nature of Geography" (Salvatore J. Natoli); "Teaching and Learning in Geography" (Barbara J. Winston); "Political Science: Promise and Practice" (John G. Gunnell); "Civics and Government in Citizenship Education (James P. Shaver and Richard S. Knight); "In Search of Economic Ideals and Policies" (David D. VanHoose and William E. Becker, Jr.); "Promoting Economic Literacy" (Beverly J. Armento); "Sociology: From Theory to Social Action" (J. Ross Eshleman); "Teaching Sociology in K-12 Classrooms" (Thomas J. Switzer); "Coming of Age in Anthropology" (Roger C. Owen); "Trends in Precollegiate Anthropology" (Thomas L. Dynneson); "Psychology: Social Science, Natural Science, and Profession" (Michael Wertheimer and Others); "Teaching Psychology in High Schools" (John K. Bare); and "Looking Backward: 2035-1985" (Stanley P. Wronski). (KC)
Washington, DC : National Council for the Social Studies
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ISBN 10
0879860529
ISBN 13
9780879860523
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