NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.2 POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL HISTORY: UNDER THREAT OF VIOLENT ERASURE 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 Ashley Daniels Amber Appling Ashlee Daniels Diana Lee Lorraine Nance POLITICAL THEORY AND EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Melina Abdullah—California State University, Los Angeles Keisha Lindsey—University of Wisconsin Anthony Affigne—Providence College Clarence Lusane—American University POLITICAL HISTORY: Nikol Alexander-Floyd—Rutgers University Maruice Mangum—Alabama A&M University Russell Benjamin—Northeastern Illinois University Lorenzo Morris—Howard University Nadia Brown—Purdue University Richard T. Middleton IV—University of Missouri, UNDER THREAT OF VIOLENT ERASURE Niambi Carter—Howard University St. Louis Cathy Cohen—University of Chicago Byron D’Andra Orey—Jackson State University Dewey Clayton—University of Louisville Marion Orr—Brown University Nyron Crawford—Temple University Dianne Pinderhughes—University of Notre Dame Heath Fogg Davis—Temple University Matt Platt—Morehouse College Pearl Ford Dowe—University of Arkansas H.L.T. Quan—Arizona State University Kamille Gentles Peart—Roger Williams University Boris Ricks—California State University, Northridge Daniel Gillion—University of Pennsylvania Christina Rivers—DePaul University Ricky Green—California State University, Sacramento Neil Roberts—Williams College Jean-Germain Gros—University of Missouri, St. Louis Fatemeh Shafiei—Spelman College Fredrick Harris—Columbia University Evelyn Simien—University of Connecticut Errol Henderson—Pennsylvania State University Christel Temple—University of Pittsburgh Juliet Hooker—University of Texas Darryl Thomas—Pennsylvania State University Gerald Horne—University of Houston Shatema Threadcraft—Dartmouth College Zenzele Isoke—University of Minnesota Cassandra Veney—Quinnipiac University Charles E. Jones—University of Cincinnati Sherri Wallace—University of Louisville Brittany Lewis—Bowdoin College Christopher Whitt—Augustana College A PUBLICATION OF Shelby F. Lewis—African Renaissance and Diaspora Tonya Williams—Cosumnes River College Network Board THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.2 POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL HISTORY: UNDER THREAT OF VIOLENT ERASURE A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS National Political Science Review | iv Copyright © 2019 Tara Atherley Copyright © 2019 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard Copyright © 2019 Anita Plummer Copyright © 2019 Thabang Dladla Copyright © 2019 Reem Abou-samra Copyright © 2019 Olivier Richomme Copyright © 2019 Harold Young Copyright © 2019 Dale Tatum Copyright © 2019 Ronald E. Brown, Davin Phoenix, and James Jackson Copyright © 2019 April Jackson Copyright © 2019 Audra Eagle Yun Copyright © 2019 Betty Mamotlokoa Serame Copyright © 2019 Shauntece Laurant Copyright © 2019 H.L.T. Quan Copyright © 2019 Huma Mohibullah Copyright © 2019 Meredith Cecilia Lee Copyright © 2019 Jennifer Jones Copyright © 2019 Michael Burch Copyright © 2019 Justin Koch Copyright © 2019 Jessica Beyer Copyright © 2019 Jennifer Richter Copyright © 2019 Jaclyn Kettler Copyright © 2019 Craig Bruce Smith Copyright © 2019 Amber Gordon Copyright © 2019 Sekou Franklin 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., [email protected]. Cover art “Medicine Woman” created by Tara Atherley, [email protected]. Library of Congress Catalog Number: ISBN: O896-629-X Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany 1973; editor of compilation Title: Political Theory and Political History: Under Threat of Violent Erasure/ 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 20.2; Includes bibliographic references Subjects: LCSH: Pre-colonial Kenya and China—Diplomatic Politics; Philosophy—Political, South Africa; Blacks—Decolonizing Politics; Voting Rights—California Voting Rights Act; Humanitarian Intervention— International Criminal Court, Referrals; African American Leadership; Striving—Narratives of Black Struggle, Alienation; Black Identities; Political Science Pedagogies—Teaching and Learning prefatory | v Contents Editors’ Note vii Research Articles 1 China’s public diplomacy in Kenya: History, Power and Politics 2 Anita Plummer Wrestling with the whiteness of South African philosophy: Ndumiso Dladla’s Here is a Table 20 Thabang Dladla Du Boisian Multi-structuralism 39 Reem Abou-samra “Fair” Minority Representation and the California Voting Rights Act 55 Olivier Richomme Humanitarian Intervention: Powerless in a Globalizing World? 76 Harold Young The Moses Complex and the Crisis of African American Leadership 95 Dale Tatum Turning the Wheels: Striving and Black American Social Identity in the 21st Century 129 Ronald E. Brown, Davin Phoenix, and James Jackson Symposium: Teaching, Learning, and Theorizing Under the Threat 149 of Violence and Erasure Embraced: Reflecting on the Massacre of Muslim People in New Zealand 150 Through My Research Findings April Jackson “Theories of Time and Space”: Natasha Trethewey’s 153 Black Feminist Pedagogy and the Political Philosophy of a Poet Laureate Audra Eagle Yun Decolonizing South African Education: Lessons from the Pre-Colonial Era 156 Betty Mamotlokoa Serame For the Love of Nipsey Hussle 163 Shauntece Laurant Filmmaking as Scholarship: Filmmaking, 167 Knowledge Production, and Embodied Theorizing H.L.T. Quan National Political Science Review | vi Book Reviews 171 Huma Mohibullah review of Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, 172 and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy by Rosemary R. Corbett Meredith Cecilia Lee review of Race and Sexuality 175 by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Brandon Andrew Robinson, and Cristina Khan Jennifer Jones review of Partners or Rivals? Power and Latino, Black, 178 and White Relations in the 21st Century by Betina Cutaia Wilkinson Michael Burch review of The World of Protracted Conflictsby Michael Brecher 181 Justin Koch review of Checkbook Elections?: Political Finance in Comparative Perspective 183 by Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es Jessica Beyer review of Risk and Hyperconnectivity: Media and Memories of Neoliberalism 186 by Andrew Hoskins and John Tulloch Jennifer Richter review of The Politics of Innovation: 189 Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology by Mark Zachary Taylor Jaclyn Kettler review of Altered States: Changing Populations, Changing Parties, and the 192 Transformation of the American Political Landscape by Thomas M. Holbrook Craig Bruce Smith review of The American Revolution Reborn by Patrick Spero 195 and Michael Zuckerman Amber Gordon review of Treasure | My Black Rupture by Anna Martine Whitehead 198 and Surveillance by Ashaki Jackson Note on Passing: Byrdie Larkin 201 Invitation to the Scholarly Community 203 Editor’s Note | vii Editor’s Note The Research Articles begin with Anita Plummer’s contention that “Chinese diplomats have branded their country as a non-hegemonic global partner that had the common experience of Europe’s imperial expansion along with the other formerly colonized nations… with the resulting effect that “Chinese diplomats have replaced a Eurocentric narrative with a Sino-centric one.” This research brings a four-century span of political history into conversation with contemporary research on diplomatic narratives. Philospher Thabang Dladla introduces the threads which link political integration projects in South Africa to the role played by advocates of colonialism in the field of political philosophy. Reem Abou-samra explores “contradictory advocacy” in W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings and in scholarship about him and recommends multi-structuralism as an alternative methodology for scholarship on his work. In this critical period after the June 2019 Supreme Court Rucho v. Common Cause decision Olivier Richomme’s research on the California Voting Rights Act explains how significant state level decision making on increasing minorities’ representation, especially Latinos, will continue to be. Harold Young’s research on Sudan Myanmar, Congo, Yemen, and Venezuela raises wide-ranging questions about the challenges facing people of color as they face referrals to the International Criminal