Dr. Robert Smith, "From the Bayou to the Bay"

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April 18, 2018
From the Bayou to the Bay flyer

"From the Bayou to the Bay, From JFK to Donald Trump: Toward a Memoir of A Past That Has No Future.” Led by Dr. Robert Smith

 

When: April 18th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm I   Where: Seven Hills Conference Center 

 

Bio: Robert C. Smith is a professor of political science at San Francisco State University.   An honors graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he holds a master’s degree from UCLA and the Ph.D. from Howard. He is author or co-author of scores of articles and essays and ten books including Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion; Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t; We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era; African American LeadershipContemporary Controversies and the American Racial DivideConservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance, What has This Got to Do With the Liberation of Black People?: The Impact of Ronald W. Walters on African American Thought and Leadership and Polarization and the Presidency: From FDR to Barack Obama. He is former associate editor of the National Political Science Review and general editor of the State University of New York Press African American Studies series. He has taught African American politics and American government for more than thirty-five years. Professor Smith is a co-author of a leading textbook in the field (American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom) and the Encyclopedia of African American Politics. He is currently writing a biography of Ronald Walters, his mentor and longtime Howard University professor who he argues is the most consequential African American political scientist of the last half-century. In addition to his teaching and research, Professor Smith appears frequently on local and national radio and television programs analyzing American and African American politics. In 1998 he was the recipient of Howard University’s Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni Award.