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 Robert
C. Smith is professor of political science at
San Francisco
State
University. An honors graduate of the
University
of
California, Berkeley, he holds a master’s degree from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Howard. He is
author or coauthor of more than 40 articles and essays and nine books
including Race, Class and Culture:
A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion; Racism in the Post Civil Rights
Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t; We Have No Leaders: African
Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era; and African American Leadership.
He is associate editor of the National
Political Science Review and general editor of the State University
of New York (SUNY) Press African American Studies series. He has taught
African American politics and American government for more than 30
years. His Encyclopedia of African
American Politics was published in 2003. In 1998 he was recipient of
Howard
University’s Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni Award.
Check out Professor Smith's forthcoming book to be published by SUNY
Press on the relationship between
conservatism and racism in America. In addition to his teaching and research, he lectures widely and
frequently discusses American and African American politics in local and
national media.
New from SUNY Press 2010
Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same
Robert C. Smith
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Price: $85.00
Hardcover -
304 pages |
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Release Date: September 2010 |
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ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3233-5 |
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Price: $26.95
Paperback -
304 pages |
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Release Date: September 2010 |
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ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3232-8 |
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Systematically illustrates the
inescapable racism of American conservatism.
In this provocative, wide-ranging study, Robert C. Smith contends that
ideological conservatism and racism are and always have been equivalent
in the United States. In this carefully constructed and thoroughly
documented philosophical, historical, and empirical inquiry, Smith
analyzes conservative ideas from John Locke to William F. Buckley Jr.,
as well as the parallels between the rise and decline of the civil
rights movement in the 1950s and 1970s and the ascendancy of the
conservative movement to national power in 1980. Using archival material
from the Reagan Library, the book includes detailed analysis of the
Reagan presidency and race, focusing on affirmative action, the Voting
Rights Act, the Grove City case, welfare reform, South Africa policy,
and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Conservatism and Racism, and
Why in America They Are the Same goes beyond a focus on the right
wing, concluding with an analysis of the enduring impact of the
conservative movement and the Reagan presidency on liberalism, race, and
the Democratic Party.
Curriculum
Vita
Contact Information:
Department of Political Science
San Francisco State
University
1600 Holloway Ave. HSS 263
San Francisco, CA 94132-4155
Phone: 415-338-7524 Fax: 415-338-2391
E-mail: rcs@sfsu.edu
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