Hanes Walton, Jr.: Architect of the Black Science of Politics

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Hanes Walton, Jr.: Architect of the Black Science of Politics is written by Robert C. Smith and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319755714 (ISBN 10) and 9783319755717 (ISBN 13).

Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science. This study comprehensively analyses Walton’s corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science. It concludes with an analysis of how the subfield has evolved since Walton’s pioneering work.