Lester Spence
Professor of Political Science and Africana studies
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Lester Spence's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science Morehouse College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lester K. Spence , Professor of Political Science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University is known for his academic critiques of neoliberalism and his media commentary and research on race, urban politics, and police violence. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Spence's writings on race and politics appear regularly in publications such as Jacobin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, DissentNPR, New York Times, Baltimore City Paper, among others. Spence also appeared regularly on C-SPAN, The Marc Steiner Show, among others.
Lester Spence's Published Works
Published Works
- Measuring Attitudes toward the United States Supreme Court (2003) (295)
- Why Do People Accept Public Policies They Oppose? Testing Legitimacy Theory with a Survey-Based Experiment (2005) (211)
- Seeing Difference: The Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Toward Latinos (2006) (192)
- The Supreme Court and the US Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise? (2003) (182)
- Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics (2011) (60)
- Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (2015) (54)
- The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (2012) (42)
- Context, Black Empowerment, and African American Political Participation (2010) (33)
- The Role of Theory in Experimental Design: Experiments Without Randomization (2002) (32)
- APPENDIX C. The Supreme Court and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise? (2009) (30)
- Revisiting Black Incorporation and Local Political Participation (2009) (23)
- Episodic Frames, HIV/AIDS, and African American Public Opinion (2010) (19)
- The New White Nationalism In America (2004) (7)
- Race and Representation in Detroit’s Community Development Coalitions (2004) (5)
- “TRUE TO OUR NATIVE LAND”: Distinguishing Attitudinal Support for Pan-Africanism from Black Separatism (2005) (5)
- Obama and the Future of Hip-hop Politics (2011) (2)
- African-American Presidential Convention and Nomination Politics: Alan Keyes in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primaries and Convention (2017) (2)
- Ella Baker and the challenge of black rule (2020) (2)
- Strings of life: Gender and political participation in Detroit. (2001) (1)
- Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013) (2015) (1)
- Race, Class, and the Neoliberal Scourge (2013) (1)
- Book Review: Blue Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, by Karyn Lacy Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 302 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paperback) (2010) (1)
- The Deaths Could Have Been Prevented (2006) (0)
- Trump, Race, and the Slow Death of Democracy (2017) (0)
- Heroism and the political scientist: reflections on Richard Iton, Nick Nelson, and Hanes Walton (2013) (0)
- Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013) (2015) (0)
- Austerity , Neoliberalism , and Black Communities The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (2013) (0)
- 6. The Neoliberal City and the Racial Idea (2020) (0)
- Trayvon Martin and the Political Imagination (2012) (0)
- Follow the Leader: Hip-hop Activism and theCirculation of Black Politics (2011) (0)
- A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous: Consuming Rap and Political Attitudes (2011) (0)
- Follow Me into a Solo (2011) (0)
- In This Journey, You’re the Journalist: Rap Lyrics, Neoliberalism, andthe Black Parallel Public (2011) (0)
- Community Development Coalitions (2016) (0)
- Book Notes (2011) (0)
- Book in Review: Musical Democracy, by Nancy Love. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 168 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper) (2008) (0)
- Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics. By Lakeyta M. Bonnette. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 232p. $49.95 cloth. (2018) (0)
- Race and Representation in Detroit’s Community Development Coalitions (2004) (0)
- Live and Let Die: Rethinking Secondary Marginalization in the 21st Century (2019) (0)
- Race and The Green Mile (2017) (0)
- Hype, Hip-Hop, and Heartbreak: Th e Rise and Fall of Kwame (2010) (0)
- Do the Right Thing in the post-post Civil Rights era (2019) (0)
- Put Here to Be Much More Than That: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatrick (2011) (0)
- Black Elite Rhetoric and American Public Opinion (2015) (0)
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