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In this chapter Smith portrays Walton as an old-fashioned “Ebony Tower” intellectual, who shunned administrative work and engagement with the media in order to devote his energies to research and study, and laying the intellectual foundations for the modern scientific study of black politics. The first person to earn a Ph.D. in political science from Howard University, Smith notes that Walton is one of only two top-tier black political scientists to be educated entirely at historically black colleges, and suggests that this black experience was aspirational and inspirational in his work to establish black politics as a recognized field in the discipline of political science.
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The terms African American and black politics are used interchangeably in this study.
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Hanes Walton, Jr. and Robert C. Smith, American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom (New York: Longman, 2000): xviii.
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Ibid.
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Hanes Walton to William R. Keech, May 11, 1987 (Personal Files of the Author, hereafter PFA).
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Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan , “Hanes Walton , Jr. Endowment for Graduate Study in Racial and Ethnic Politics”, (ND).
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Walton also did work on black women in politics, writing a book on black women delegates to the United Nations, which I discuss in the section on African politics and articles on black female candidates for office. See “The First Black Female Gubernatorial Candidate in Georgia” and “Black Female Presidential Candidates” in Hanes Walton, Jr. (ed.) Black Politics and Black Political Behavior: A Linkage Analysis (Westport, CT.: Praeger, 1994), Tasha Philpot and Hanes Walton “One of Our Own: Black Female Candidates and the Voters Who Support Them” American Journal of Political Science 51(2007): 49–62 and Hanes Walton, Jr. and Robert C. Smith, “New South Heroine: Atlanta’s First Black Female Mayor”, Africana.com , January 10, 2002.
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Smith, R.C. (2018). Introduction. In: Hanes Walton, Jr.: Architect of the Black Science of Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75571-7_1
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