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Robert
C. Smith  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.
Professor Smith is currently writing a book 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.
Curriculum
Vita
Other
Books
African
American Leadership
We Have No Leaders
Racism in the Post Civil Rights Era
Encyclopedia of African American Politics
SUNY
African American Studies Series (John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors) www.sunypress.edu
Recent/Forthcoming Publications
“Immigration
and African Americans” (co-author Steven Shulman) in Cecilia A. Conrad
African Americans in the U.S.
Economy, Boulder, CO.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005): 199-207.
“The Race Variable in the American Political Science Association’s
State of the Discipline (co-author Hanes Walton, Jr.) in Wilbur Rich (ed),
The State of the Discipline: An
African American Perspective (
Philadelphia
:
Temple
University
Press).
“The
Deck and the Sea: The African American Vote and the 2000 and 2004
Presidential Elections”, (co-author Richard Seltzer), National
Political Science Review.
“Affirmative
Action Has Always Been White and Still Is: Ira Katznelson’s Untold
Histories”, National Political
Science Review.
Current
Research
Conservatism
and Racism and Why They Are the Same in
America: A Study in Ideas and Movements, 1950s – 1980s (Link)
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