http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1476 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/exploring-black-political-thought-now-and-then <!--paging_filter--><p>Professor Michael Dawson's most recent book, "Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African American Mass Political Ideologies" (University of Chicago Press, 2001), brings a historical perspective to black political ideologies. "The work tries to assess, using public opinion materials as well as other types of archival materials, to what degree do some of the historically important political ideologies within the black community still have influence on contemporary black public opinion," he says. The answer, he says, is uneven, fluctuating from era to era. "We don't want to look at public opinion as being static, because these traditions change over time," he says. During his college days in the 1970s, for instance, many ideologies competed to capture the black political agenda.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/exploring-black-political-thought-now-and-then">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:26:16 -0400 70652986 3290 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu