Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership [Hardcover]

Domestic and international health activism and health policy are focal points in this volume, a publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This work demonstrates the continuing importance of the medical civil rights movement, through examples of activism of women of colour in AIDS service organizations, of their health issues, and of the struggle for racial equity in health care in Brazil.

Spikes in police and vigilante violence, as well as fear of a reversion to resegregated schools have brought a new urgency to black political activism. The contributors explore the effect of race on American attitudes toward immigration policy and reform, black state legislators and American morality politics, the historically disproportionate influence of Southern whites in American politics, and the undermining of school desegregation laws with nullification strategies. The volume's Trends section features conversations on the #BlackLivesMatter movement in Los Angeles, the 2016 presidential election, and examines the teaching of the Trayvon Martin story at the University of California, Irvine. The volume also includes a diverse selection of book reviews.

Editors' Note

Research Articles

Black State Legislators and Morality Politics
Donn Worgs

Civic Engagement Is a Process: Lessons from a First-Year Public Administration Course
Zulema Blair

Crossing the Mason Dixon versus the Rio Grande: Evaluating the Effect of Race on Attitudes toward Immigration Policy
Carley M. Shinault and Richard A.Seltzer

All but Overturned: America's Nullification of Brown v. Board of Education
Albert L. Samuels

Charting a Path toward Racial Health Equity in Brazil: Health Activism, the State, and Policy Development
Kia Lilly Caldwell

The Limits of EmanclÃ#