African American LeadershipWritten by two preeminent scholars of the subject, this book provides a panoramic view of the theory, research, and praxis of African American leadership. Walters and Smith offer a great deal to students of black leadership, as well as important strategy and policy recommendations for black leaders. The book first presents a comprehensive assessment of the social science research literature on black leadership. It finds that older studies (1930s to 1960s) dealt with the nascent formation of leadership theory, where blacks were located predominantly in the context of southern politics and had to adopt a conservative to moderate leadership style. The authors also review and evaluate research on black leadership from the 1970s to the present and suggest attention be given to studies of leadership that involve community level leadership, female leaders, black mayors, and black conservatives. African American Leadership also focuses on the practice of black leadership. |
Contents
The Negro Leadership Literature | 7 |
Factors Affecting the Transformation from Negro | 27 |
Problems in Theory | 59 |
Appendix A | 87 |
Introduction | 95 |
Black Leadership and the Problem of Strategy Shift | 123 |
The National Black Leadership Roundtable | 151 |
Mass Mobilization | 173 |
Unity and Accountability | 197 |
Leadership Toward What Ends | 223 |
Toward a TwentyFirst | 249 |
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