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- Title
BLACK ELECTED ADMINISTRATORS: THE TRIALS OF OFFICE.
- Authors
Nelson Jr., William E.; Van Home, Winston
- Abstract
Few political movements in the history of the United States have emerged with more drama, emotion, and tension than the contemporary black upsurge in the electoral arena. Across the nation blacks are occupying public positions not held by members of their race since the end of the Civil War and the onset of the era of disfranchisement. To obtain these positions, blacks have marched, boycotted, picketed, and died. As the number of blacks elected to public office increases, serious questions arise concerning the implications of this trend for the black community. This article addresses some of those questions by analyzing a variety of problems faced by black elected administrators as they attempt to fulfill the black community's urgent desire for institutional reform and a radical shift in governmental priorities. Black electoral victories, which do not lead to a restructuring of the institutional framework and economic resource distribution of American society, will, at best, replace colonialists with neo-colonialists. If black political and economic liberation are to be achieved, electoral politics can only be viewed as one facet of a larger political struggle.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN American legislators; AFRICAN Americans; PUBLIC administration; BLACK power movement; UNITED States politics &; government; CIVIL service; RACE discrimination; UNITED States elections; MINORITIES
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1974, Vol 34, Issue 6, p526
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974347