Combining insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans’ voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America’s political history.
Hanes Walton, Jr. is Professor of Political Science and senior research scientist in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.
Sherman C. Puckett is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Michigan in urban and regional planning.
Donald R. Deskins, Jr. is a political geographer and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Michigan.