Lexington Books
Pages: 180
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7391-1968-6 • Paperback • October 2007 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-0-7391-5986-6 • eBook • October 2007 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Baodong Liu is associate professor of political science at the University of Utah. James M. Vanderleeuw is professor of political science and Director of the Center of Public Policy Studies at Lamar University, Texas.
Chapter 1. Hurricane Katrina, Racial Change, and Electoral Politics in New Orleans: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Theories of Racial Politics in Urban America
Chapter 3. Racial Conflict and Accommodation in Electoral Politics
Chapter 4. Black Mayors in New Orleans
Chapter 5. Racial Conflict in the Electoral Arena
Chapter 6. Race and Strategic Voting
Chapter 7. Race, Katrina, and New Orleans' Electoral Politics: Conclusion
The authors of this unique longitudinal study of racial voting patterns challenge both Key's racial threat hypothesis and the racial tolerance hypothesis. As the authors show in the thorough analysis of decades of New Orleans' elections, racial voting patterns are the product of the racial makeup of the electorate and the candidate pool. This volume should be on the shelf of all those interested in racial politics and urban politics.
— Charles S. Bullock III, University of Georgia
Liu and Vanderleeuw reaffirm that in urban politics race still matters and they provide a fresh insight into how it matters. As the post-civil rights era matures, they show that to understand electoral urban politics where race is involved is not so much V.O. Key's notion of 'black threat' to which we should attend, but rather his statement 'voters are not fools.'
— Jeffrey Sadow, Louisiana State University, Shreveport