The African American Electorate: A Statistical History

Hanes Walton · Sherman C. Puckett · Donald R. Deskins

may, 2012 · CQ Press

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How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate: A Statistical History attempts to answer by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span.

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.

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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.