Volume 18 National Political Science Review Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment
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THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW EDITORS Managing Editor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard University of California, Irvine Associate Managing Editor Julia Jordan-Zachery Providence College Duchess Harris Macalester College Sharon Wright Austin The University of Florida Angela K. Lewis University of Alabama, Birmingham BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Keisha Blain University of Iowa EDITORIAL BOARD Melina Abdullah - California State University, Keisha Lindsay - University of Wisconsin Los Angeles Clarence Lusane - American University Anthony Affigne - Providence College Maruice Mangum - Texas Southern University Nikol Alexander-Floyd - Rutgers University Lorenzo Morris - Howard University Russell Benjamin - Northeastern Illinois University Richard T. Middleton IV - University of Nadia Brown - Purdue University 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 Ford Dowe - University of Arkansas 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-German 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 - Rutgers University Gerald Horne - University of Houston Cassandra Veney - Quinnipiac University Zenzele Isoke - University of Minnesota Jerry Watts* - CUNY Graduate School Charles E. Jones - University of Cincinnati Sherri Wallace - University of Louisville Brittany Lewis - Bowdoin College Christopher Whitt - Augustana College Shelby F. Lewis - African Renaissance and Diaspora Tonya Williams - Johnson C. Smith University Network Board EDITORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS La Shonda R. Carter University of California, Irvine Armand Demirchyan University of California, Irvine *Deceased Copyright © 2016 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, elec- tronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Transaction Publishers, 10 Corporate Place South, Suite 102, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854. www.transactionpub.com This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2016027268 ISBN: 978-1-4128-6431-2 eBook: 978-1-4128-6394-0 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973- editor of compilation. | Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron, editor of compilation. Title: Challenging the legacies of racial resentment : Black health activism, educational justice, and legislative leadership / Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Julia Jordan- Zachery, editors. Description: New Brunswick [New Jersey] : Transaction Publishers, 2016. | Series: National political science review ; volume 18 | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers:LCCN 2016027268 (print) | LCCN 2016047162 (ebook) | ISBN 9781412864312 (paperback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781412863940 Subjects: LCSH: African Americans--Medical care--Government policy. | Blacks--Medical care--Brazil--Government policy. | Medical policy--United States. | Medical policy-- Brazil. | African Americans--Civil rights. | Blacks--Civil rights--Brazil. | African American political activists. | Political activists--Brazil. | African Americans--Education-- Political aspects. | United States--Race relations--History--21st century. Classification: LCC RA448.5.N4 C52 2016 (print) | LCC RA448.5.N4 (ebook) | DDC 362.1089/96073081--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027268 Contents Editors’ Note ix Research Articles 1 Black State Legislators and Morality Politics 3 Donn Worgs Civic Engagement Is a Process: Lessons from a First-Year Public 23 Administration Course Zulema Blair Crossing the Mason Dixon versus the Rio Grande: Evaluating 41 the Effect of Race on Attitudes toward Immigration Policy Carley M. Shinault and Richard A.Seltzer All but Overturned: America’s Nullification of 67 Brown v. Board of Education Albert L. Samuels Charting a Path toward Racial Health Equity in Brazil: 89 Health Activism, the State, and Policy Development Kia Lilly Caldwell The Limits of Emancipation: Black Americans and 111 White Southern Dominance of American Politics from the Founding to the Twenty-First Century Neal Allen Black Women Take Their Health into Their Own Hands: 123 The Het Heru Healing Dance and Auset Qigong Françoise B. Cromer Learning from the Doers: Women of Color AIDS Service 141 Organizations and Their Understanding of Intersectionality Julia Jordan-Zachery Trends: The Pedagogy of Black Politics 161 “Planting the Seeds of Our Future” in Action: A Conversation 163 with Melina Abdullah Tommi D. Hayes A Conversation on the 2016 Presidential Election with 177 Robert Smith and Melanye Price Mali Collins “Teaching Trayvon” at Irvine: On Feminist Praxis, 183 Afro-pessimism, and “Woke Work” M. Shadee Malaklou Book Reviews 193 Adryan Wallace review of What’s Left of Blackness: Feminisms, 195 Transracial Solidarities, and the Politics of Belonging in Britain by Tracy Fisher Mary Phillips review of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African 199 American Women Activists in the Cold War by Dayo Gore Joe Rollins review of Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy 202 of Colorblindness in American Law by Sora Y. Han Brandon R. Byrd review of The Americans Are Coming! Dreams 205 of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa by Robert Trent Vinson Daniel Royles review of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, 208 and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet Brooks Kirchgassner review of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical 211 Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon Tu Huynh review of Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday 213 Life in an In-Between City by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato Brandy Thomas Wells review of Black Internationalist Feminism: 217 Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 by Cheryl Higashida Jasmin A. Young review of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American 220 Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism by Erik S. McDuffie Christopher Cameron review of At the Cross: Race, Religion, 223 and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty by Melynda J. Price Walter D. Greason review of Pulse of the People: Political 225 Rap Music and Black Politics by Lakeyta M. Bonnette A Note on Passing: Cedric Robinson 227 A Note on Passing: Savannah Carroll 230 A Note on Passing: Otis Madison 231 A Note on Passing: Jerry Watts 233 A Note on Passing: Michael Mitchell 235 Invitation to the Scholarly Community 237 Editors’ Note The content of volume 18 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR) reflects the sweep of research questions, themes, and patterns of power relations that under- pin the study of Black politics. With the passing of a much-beloved mentor, editor Dr. Michael Mitchell, the journal enters a transitional period of intentional remembrance and deep reflection. Michael joined the ancestors and was followed by so many others without whom we could not have made our way or imagined our roles in the projects of Radical Black Politics: Jerry Watts, Otis Madison, Savannah Carroll, and Cedric Robin- son. Michael Mitchell’s mantra of scholarly excellence and cross-generational research collaboration created a high standard for the new editorial board and editorial advisory board to follow. We enter this new challenge with gratitude for the incredible model of integrity that Michael Mitchell, Lucius Barker, Matthew Holden, Georgia Persons, and David Covin established. Health activism and health policy domestically and globally is a consistent emphasis in this volume of the National Political Science Review that develops explicitly out of the long research in this area conducted by former editor, Dr. Georgia Persons. The research in this volume explores how new opportunity structures in Brazil and the United States have called into question whether medical Jim Crow has ended. Careful attention to intersectionality, grassroots organizing, executive politics, and health service organiza- tions provides depth and dimension to the many different scales and levels of analysis at which research on health activism continues to be conducted. While the authors point to the demonstrable evidence of presidential politics (Henrique Cardoso, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, and Barack Obama) influencing and shaping debates on racialized and gender health disparities, they also demonstrate how the legacies of what Alondra Nelson has called “the distinctly hazardous risks posed by segregated medical facilities, professions,