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White Nationalism, Black Interests, And Contemporary American Politics, Corey Cook
White Nationalism, Black Interests, And Contemporary American Politics, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
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Firsts: The Election Of Asian American Mayors In Oakland And San Francisco, Corey Cook
Firsts: The Election Of Asian American Mayors In Oakland And San Francisco, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
This paper utilizes an original dataset to comparatively analyze the 2010 mayoral election in Oakland and 2011 mayoral election in San Francisco. The paper considers the unique political context in each city and analyzes individual ranked choice ballots to draw inferences about the nature of mayoral coalitions in these neighboring Bay Area cities.
Constructing A Moderate Multiracial Coalition In "America's Most Diverse City": Kevin Johnson And Coalition Politics In Sacramento, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
Purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the growing academic literature on "post-racial" African American leadership by exploring the election and reelection of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Johnson is emblematic of the current generation of young African American leaders: politically moderate, less likely to employ overt racial appeals, and able to assemble a multiethnic political coalition. Design/methodology/approach - This chapter utilizes a combination of semi-structured interviews and multivariate quantitative analysis of an original dataset to reveal both the diversity of the Johnson coalition and the high support for Johnson's candidacy in Sacramento's African American community. Findings …