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NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.3 FORWARD! NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (1989-2019) A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS FORWARD! NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (1989-2019) A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.3 FORWARD! NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (1989-2019) A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS National Political Science Review | ii THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW EDITORS Managing Editor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard University of California, Irvine Duchess Harris Macalester College Sharon D. Wright Austin The University of Florida Angela K. Lewis University of Alabama, Birmingham BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Brandy Thomas Wells Oklahoma State University EDITORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS Amber Appling Ashlee Daniels Diana Lee Lorraine Nance FORWARD! NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (1989-2019) EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Melina Abdullah—California State University, Los Angeles Keisha Lindsey—University of Wisconsin Anthony Affigne—Providence College Clarence Lusane—American University Nikol Alexander-Floyd—Rutgers University Maruice Mangum—Alabama State University Russell Benjamin—Northeastern Illinois University Lorenzo Morris—Howard University Nadia Brown—Purdue University Richard T. Middleton IV—University of Missouri, St. Louis Niambi Carter—Howard University Byron D’Andra Orey—Jackson State University Cathy Cohen—University of Chicago Marion Orr—Brown University Dewey Clayton—University of Louisville Dianne Pinderhughes—University of Notre Dame Nyron Crawford—Temple University Matt Platt—Morehouse College Heath Fogg Davis—Temple University H.L.T. Quan—Arizona State University Pearl Dowe —Emory University Boris Ricks—California State University, Northridge Kamille Gentles Peart—Roger Williams University Christina Rivers—DePaul University Daniel Gillion—University of Pennsylvania Neil Roberts—Williams College Ricky Green—California State University, Sacramento Fatemeh Shafiei—Spelman College Jean-Germain Gros—University of Missouri, St. Louis Evelyn Simien—University of Connecticut Fredrick Harris—Columbia University Christel Temple—University of Pittsburgh Errol Henderson—Pennsylvania State University Darryl Thomas—Pennsylvania State University Juliet Hooker—University of Texas Shatema Threadcraft—Dartmouth College Gerald Horne—University of Houston Cassandra Veney—Quinnipiac University Zenzele Isoke—University of Minnesota Sherri Wallace—University of Louisville Charles E. Jones—University of Cincinnati Christopher Whitt—Augustana College A PUBLICATION OF Brittany Lewis—Bowdoin College Tonya Williams—Cosumnes River College THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS Shelby F. Lewis—African Renaissance and Diaspora Network Board NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.3 FORWARD! NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (1989-2019) A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS National Political Science Review | iv Copyright © 2019 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard Copyright © 2019 Brittany Lewis Copyright © 2019 William Crotty Copyright © 2019 Siphamandla Zondi and Muauz Gidey Copyright © 2019 Steven Nawara and Mandy Bates Bailey Copyright © 2019 Meressa Tsehaye Gebrewahd Copyright © 2019 Timothy Lewis Copyright © 2019 Mzilikazi Koné Copyright © 2019 Bogdan Popa and Kerry Mackereth, Copyright © 2019 Mary Rose Copyright © 2019 Cecile Yezou Copyright © 2019 Bridgett King Copyright © 2019 Ndumiso Dladla Copyright © 2019 Felice Knight Copyright © 2019 Mandy Bates Bailey Copyright © 2019 Martín Fernández Fernández Copyright © 2019 Lorraine Nance and LaShonda Carter Copyright © 2019 Tara Atherley All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher at the address below. All inquiries should be addressed to each individual author at corresponding address. This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Cover and layout designed by John McCall, Jr., jwmccall@ mvsu.edu. Cover and layout designed by John McCall, Jr., [email protected]. Cover art “Black Madonna” created by Tara Atherley, [email protected]. Library of Congress Catalog Number: ISBN: 0896-629-X Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany 1973; editor of compilation Title: Forward! National Political Science Review (1989-2019)/ Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, editor Description: Lincoln [Nebraska]: Joe Christensen, Inc., 2019 and National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 14000 HWY 82 West, MVSU 5098, Itta Bena, MS 38941-1400, USA; Series: National political science review; volume 20.3; Includes bibliographic references Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Political Representation; Civil Rights Act; Voting Rights Act; Supreme Court—white primary; Black voter selection; Public opinion—college students; Fannie Lou Hamer; Grassroots activism; Civil Rights Struggle—North, Minneapolis; Ethiopian Politics-Conflict—structural violence, direct violence—; Border security—Ethiopia & Eritrea, military, postcolonial nation building, cross-border ethnic ties; Politics of Cinema—Get Out (2017) prefatory | v Contents Editor’s Note vii Research Articles 1 The Rise of an Urban Black Regime Further North: The Politics of White Liberalism 2 in Minnesota and the Creation of the Northside Resident Redevelopment Council Brittany Lewis Black Representation and Repression in the Contemporary Era: 31 The Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court William Crotty Rethinking Issa-Afar Mimetic Violence beyond Invisibility of Structural 69 Violence and Repetition of Direct Violence Siphamandla Zondi and Muauz Gidey Racial Animosity, Homophobia, and Nativism in Predicting Trump’s 95 Support among College Students in the 2016 Primaries Steven Nawara and Mandy Bates Bailey Securitization and militarization of the Border: Security dilemma in 113 post-1998 Ethiopia and Eritrea Meressa Tsehaye Gebrewahd Black Curativeness: Understanding Black Voter Selection through an 136 Assessment of Racially-charged Districts Timothy Lewis Symposium: Politics and Film in Get Out (2017) 149 Black Zombie: Capture, Slavery and Freedom 150 Mzilikazi Koné Vampiric Necropolitics: A Map of Black Studies Critique from 165 Karl Marx’ Vampire to Get Out’s Politics of the Undead Bogdan Popa and Kerry Mackereth Book Reviews 179 Mary Rose review of The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental 180 Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries by Suja A. Thomas Cecile Yezou review of In the Heat of the Summer: 183 The NY Riots of 1964 and the War on Drugs by Michael W. Flamm Bridgett King review of Uninformed: Why People Seem to Know So 186 Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It by Arthur Lupia National Political Science Review | vi Ndumiso Dladla review of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, 189 and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry Felice Knight review of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of America’s 192 Economic Development by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman Mandy Bates Bailey review of Identify & Sort: How Digital 195 Power Changed World Politics Josef Teboho Ansorge Martín Fernández Fernández review of The New Negro: 198 The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart Expression of Gratitude 201 Invitation to the Scholarly Community 207 Editor’s Note | vii Editor’s Note We open the Research Articles with Brittany Lewis’s study on the black freedom struggle in the North. Lewis sets the stage with the scene of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer rebuffing the ethics of Lyndon Johnson’s use of the Civil Rights Act in two ways: 1) through rejecting the representational capacity of the white primary and bringing an actually representative delegation from her state to a national party convention; and 2) through insisting that concerns about a Lyndon Johnson/Hubert Humphrey ticket paled in comparison to the dire needs of nearly a half million misrepresented Black people in the society. This scene is more than an evocative prelude in a study about the displacement of Black urbanites and creating cross-generational concentrated poverty. Opening with Hamer sets the stage for answering questions about the stakes of representing black peoples’ lives in a context of what Brittany Lewis explains as “decades of uneven development.” Since the 1990s and the consolidation of some of the most sophisticated forms of tokenizing multiculturalist representation, political philosophers of every stripe have warned against the imposition of what Prairie View A&M University Endowed Professor of Political Science Melanye Price has called “race whisper[ing]” as a decoy against substantive representation. Price put the most potent contemporary fine point on this perennial concern debated by luminaries Percy Hintzen, Dianne Pinderhughes, Carol Hardy- Fanta, Christine Marie Sierra, Pei-te Lien, Linda Martin Alcoff, Nancy Fraser, Todd Gitlin, Iris Marion Young, Avery Gordon, and Christopher Newfield among so many others. All have reminded us to take care to define representation through substantive