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Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture - The National Political Science Review (Paperback, New)
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Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture - The National Political Science Review (Paperback, New)
Series: National Political Science Review Series
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The National Political Science Review is the official publication
of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This new
volume, "Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture"
reflects major research focuses across religion, race, gender,
culture, and of course, politics. Themes that engage a community of
scholars also engage them in praxis as individual citizens and
practitioners in a democratic society, and collectively as
member-participants in a changing culture.
Two themes, religion and culture are relatively new areas of
intellectual curiosity for political scientists. Articles in this
volume extend the beachheads already established by
African-American political scientists in studies that guage the
significance and influence of religion in both individual and group
behavior. They chart religion's inevitable move onto the center
stage of U.S. public affairs.
The study of culture has essentially languished for almost a
generation within political science, especially with regard to the
study of American politics and society. During this time the
emphasis has also shifted significantly from an almost exclusive
focus on civic culture to an expanding focus on the broad expanse
of popular culture in the contemporary period. Culture is the
crucible within which politics, race, religion, and gender both
foment and ferment, and artistic products of the culture are
manifestations and mirrors of how we envision and construct a
changing reality.
Issues of race, religion, gender and culture are all dimensions of
individual and group identity. The dynamics of changing individual
and group identities change the underlying cultural canvas against
which identity is displayed and politics is acted out. The concept
of praxis is relatively new to the lexicon of political science.
However, engagement in the practice of politics is not a new idea
for African-American social scientists. Indeed, particularly for
this group, and clearly for many others, scholarship influences
praxis, and praxis influences scholarship. This volume will be of
particular interest to ethnic studies specialists, African-American
studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and
sociologists.
Georgia A. Persons is professor of political science in the School
of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology where she also
directs the Center for the Study of Social Change.
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