Behind the Mule : : Race and Class in African-American Politics / / Michael C. Dawson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Dawson, Michael C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 16 line illustrations, 33 tables

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics. Why have African Americans remained so united in most of their political attitudes? To account for this phenomenon, Dawson develops a new theory of group interests that emphasizes perceptions of "linked fates" and black economic subordination.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. BEHIND THE MULE: THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN GROUP INTERESTS -- 1. The Changing Class Structure of Black America and the Political Behavior of African Americans -- 2. The Changing Class Structure of Black America and the Political Behavior of African Americans -- 3. The Politicization of African-American Racial Group Interests -- Part Two. AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND PUBLIC OPINION -- 4. Models of African-American Racial and Economic Group Interests -- 5. African-American Partisanship and the American Party System -- 6. African-American Political Choice -- 7. Racial Group Interests, African-American Presidential Approval, and Macroeconomic Policy -- 8. Group Interests, Class Divisions, and African- American Policy Preferences -- 9. Epilogue: Racial Group Interests, Class, and the Future of African-American Politics -- Bibliography -- Index