Going Home: Black Representatives and Their ConstituentsGoing Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents. By Richard F. Fenno. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $18.00 paper)Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era. By Taeku Lee. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. 293. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper)Black Pride and Black Prejudice. By Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 215. $24.95)Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress. By Katherine Tate. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 213. $37.50)

This article examines a unique migratory movement of Filipinos to America: Filipino nationals recruited by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard between 1952 and 1970. Such recruits were seen as a solution to a mounting labor problem stemming from the Navy’s traditional use of minorities to fulfill duties as servants for naval officers. With African Americans' demands for equal opportunity reaching a crescendo during the Civil Rights era, the U.S. Navy looked to its former colony to replenish its supply of dark-skinned servants. Despite expectations of docility, however, such Filipino sailors were able to forge a culture of resistance manifested through non-confrontational acts of defiance, protest through official channels, and labor stoppage. Such actions ultimately resulted in the reversal of naval policy that relegated Filipinos to servile labor.

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CONTEXT MATTERS! RACE, REPRESENTATION, AND PUBLIC OPINION

Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ◽

10.1017/s1742058x05050113 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 145-150

Author(s):

Paula D. McClain

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

African Americans ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

Group Conflict ◽

Democratic Accountability ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Princeton University ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

American Cities ◽

Black Faces

Katherine Tate, Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in Congress. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 224 pages, ISBN: 0-691-09155-2, Cloth, $18.95; ISBN: 0-691-11786-1, Paper, $18.95.Karen M. Kaufmann, The Urban Voter: Group Conflict and Mayoral Voting Behavior in American Cities. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004, 248 pages, ISBN: 0-472-09857-8, Cloth, $60.00; ISBN: 0-472-06857-1, Paper, $24.95.Vincent L. Hutchings, Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 192 pages, ISBN: 0-691-11416-1, Cloth, $35.00.

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Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion. By Melanye T. Price

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592710001350 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 897-898

Author(s):

Robert Gooding-Williams

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Public Opinion ◽

African Americans ◽

Civil Rights ◽

American Politics ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Black Nationalism ◽

Civil Rights Era ◽

Black President ◽

Post Civil Rights

This is a timely, engaging, and illuminating study of Black Nationalism. The book's “fundamental project,” Melanye T. Price writes, “is to systematically understand individual Black Nationalism adherence among African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era” (p. 60). Black Nationalism has a long history in African American politics, but with the demise of Jim Crow and the election of our first black president, we may reasonably wonder whether ordinary African American citizens are disposed to endorse it. Price's book is important because it addresses this question head-on, defending the thesis that a renewal of Black Nationalism remains a viable possibility in post-Obama America.

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