The Rise and Decline of Black Political Scientists in the Profession

Preston, Michael B.; Woodard, Maurice

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“…The American Political Science Association has taken an aggressive and positive role in attempting to alleviate these ostensible problems. what the Association could do to increase the supply of black political scientists (Preston and Woodard 1984). Some of the leading producers of African-American Ph.D.s have recruited heavily from this program.…”

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African Americans in the Political Science Profession

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Woodard

1992

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“…This is a long-standing issue that has been discussed at length in many venues. In PS, our colleagues have written about the racial climate in political science and the challenges that scholars of color-particularly junior scholars-may encounter while pursuing this path (Alexander-Floyd 2008; Lavariega Monforti and Michelson 2008;Preston and Woodard 1984;Sinclair-Chapman 2019).…”

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Introducing People of Color Also Know Stuff

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2019

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Since its initial founding, PRIEC has expanded to include researchers outside of California and has coordinated more than 50 meetings at 25 different institutions across the country featuring research by more than 200 scholars. PRIEC has now convened at University-to name a few. In response to growing demand, PRIEC meetings also have increased from three to six or seven per year.The overwhelming interest in PRIEC outside of California was confirmed recently at Michigan State University (MSU), where Nazita Lajevardi and Eric Gonzalez Juenke coordinated and managed a one-day meeting consisting of five panels, 26 presentations, and a poster session with 16 posters. Panel presentations were brief and were conducted "Five-Minute-Fiesta" style, 1 including 30 minutes of Q&A for each panel. The afternoon poster session was a roaming happy hour; each poster was assigned a senior scholar as a discussant who commented on the poster in depth. The evening concluded with a dinner at Lajevardi's home. Together, 75 participants from the REP community at MSU, Michigan broadly, the Midwest, and California attended the one-day meeting (figure 1 is a photograph of participants). To promote their attendance, outof-state participants were offered between $150 and $300 of support to offset travel costs. Similar to the support occasionally offered by hosts at other institutions, this funding came from PRIEC, the organizers' personal research accounts, Chicano Latino Studies at MSU, and the political science department at MSU. The MSU meeting is illustrative of PRIEC's commitment to inclusivity, mentoring, and addressing pipeline challenges.The benefits of attending and hosting a PRIEC meeting are numerous for REP scholars and for their universities more broadly. In addition to creating a welcoming space for junior scholars to access professionalization and mentorship opportunities, PRIEC meetings provide numerous public goods to a university as a whole. For instance, hosting a PRIEC meeting increases the national recognition of a university; supports a university's diversity and inclusion goals; and provides professional development for assistant professors, graduate students, and even undergraduate students. PRIEC meetings also support faculty of color (who often are REP scholars) and foster a community of race scholars in their own as well as nearby universities. n

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“…On incentives and issues for women entering the profession, seeAkhtar et al 2005. For a history of African-Americans in the profession, seePreston andWoodard 1984 andRich 2007, especially the essays in Part I. 5 For an essay with similar themes and intent, see Christopher Achen at http://thepoliticalmethodologist.…”

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White Man’s IR: An Intellectual Confession

Lake¹

2016

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Drawing largely on my own career in academia, I elaborate on the need for greater gender, racial and other forms of diversity in International Relations. Although theories are thought to be “objective,” what goes into those theories and, in turn, their explanatory power is ultimately shaped by subjective, lived experiences. Different individuals with different life stories will develop different intuitions about how the world “works,” and thus will write different theories to capture those intuitions and, in turn, larger patterns of politics. I explain here how my life experience as a privileged white male has shaped the intellectual contours of my work on international hierarchy. Building from this foundation, I then explore how professional practices elevate as gatekeepers individuals with generally similar life experiences and, thus, intuitions about what constitutes “good” work in the field, which in turn reinforces those professional practices and priorities. The final section focuses on problems of eroding the disciplinary hierarchy and broadening the pipeline into the profession.

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