Research Catalog

Title

African American statewide candidates in the new South / Charles S. Bullock, III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell.

Author

Bullock, Charles S., 1942-

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• MacManus, Susan A.
• Mayer, Jeremy D.
• Rozell, Mark J.

Description

viii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"African American candidates for statewide office in the US continue to face unique challenges given the nation's complicated racial dynamics. At the dawn of the 21st century, the US had elected only one African American as governor in its history - L. Douglas Wilder, a grandson of slaves who achieved this historic goal in 1989 in Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy. Numerous media accounts at the time declared a major breakthrough in racial politics in the US with one national news magazine actually featuring in bold type on its cover 'The End of the Civil War'. More than thirty years since Wilder's election, while black candidates have risen to office in states such as Illinois, Massachusetts, and California, there are not many successes for African American candidates seeking statewide office in the South. This is particularly puzzling because blacks are most numerous in the South, as a percentage of the population. This book includes analyses of the campaigns of mostly unsuccessful and some successful black statewide candidates in the South. The purpose is to untangle the factors that lead to electoral success for these candidates, and those that continue to hold them back. We have the vantage of recent election cycles with some historically close races in the South featuring African American candidates for governor of Florida and Georgia (2018), for lieutenant governor in Virginia (2017), and for the US Senate in South Carolina and Georgia (2020). But statewide contests are not limited to state offices; some of the most important Southern campaigns in the 21st century have featured black candidates running in the Southern presidential primaries. Most notably, Barack Obama's insurgent campaign for the nomination in 2008 blazed a trail in the South that many believed was a template for a new style of black politics. Examining broader regional demographic and political trends, the authors project that the South is on the threshold of a major breakthrough for African American statewide candidates, which will have a substantial role in not only fundamentally changing the political dynamics of the region, but nationally as well. This change will be driven not only by African American candidates and voters, but a rising coalition regionally of minorities and also white voters increasingly willing to vote for black candidates"--

Subject

• United States. Congress. Senate > Elections
• United States. Congress. Senate
• United States. Congress
• Since 1951
• African American political candidates > Southern States > History > 21st century
• Elections > Southern States > History > 21st century
• Political campaigns > Southern States > History > 21st century
• Governors > Southern States > Election
• African American political candidates
• Elections
• Governors > Election
• Political campaigns
• Politics and government
• Governors
• Southern States > Politics and government > 1951-
• Southern States
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Black statewide candidacies in the South -- Georgia: Stacey Abrams's bid to become America's first Black woman governor comes up short -- Florida: Andrew Gillum narrowly loses bid to become state's first black governor -- Virginia: African American statewide candidates navigate a complicated past (and present) -- South Carolina: Jaime Harrison comes up well short -- Raphael Warnock: Black Democratic breakthrough -- How African American candidates navigate the Southern Democratic primaries: from Chisholm and Jackson, to Obama and today -- Conclusion: the future for African American statewide candidates in the South.

Call Number

Sc E 23-897

ISBN

• 9780197607428
• 019760742X
• 9780197607435
• 0197607438

LCCN

2021035241

OCLC

1264714927

Author

Bullock, Charles S., 1942- author.

Title

African American statewide candidates in the new South / Charles S. Bullock, III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1951

Added Author

MacManus, Susan A., author.

Mayer, Jeremy D., author.

Rozell, Mark J., author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-897