American Government in Black and White - Paperback

Paula D. McClain is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and Dean of The Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education. She directs the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute hosted by Duke University, and funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University. A Howard University Ph.D., her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics, especially public policy and urban crime. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, most recently the Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, Urban Affairs Review, and The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. In addition to this text, she is coauthor of "Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, Fifth Edition, coauthored with Joseph Stewart, Jr. (2009).

Steven C. Tauber is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. His research interests include Judicial Politics and Behavior, Politics and Animal Rights, Race and Politics, and Constitutional Law and Methodology. His book Navigating the Jungle: Law Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement (Routledge, 2016) is a groundbreaking analysis of the efficacy of animal advocacy litigation. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters.