Charles P Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 652869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles P Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles P |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6650-5739 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Recently I have compared the instability and polarization around the recent presidential election to the 1968 election contest between Hubert Humphrey and Richard M. Nixon as the most intense in my lifetime. Yet William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen in From Here to Equality remind us that in the first election in which Black Texans could vote in 1868 at least 227 freedmen and Union white men were killed outright and sixty-eight wounded. In …
Barack Obama: American Historian
Steven Sarson's work presents Barack Obama as a narrative historian whose genius is his ability to synthesize many individual stories and events into a larger mosaic of national social and political progress. Of course, this weaving of many racial, ethnic, religious, and ideological strands into a unified whole begins with Obama's multicultural personal history. His skill as both a historian and a politician is his ability to relate his own story…
Black Studies and the Democratization of American Higher Education
Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
The 2016 presidential election cycle stands out as unique in several ways. Both major political party candidates were disliked by large percentages of voters, including those in their own parties. The billionaire Donald J. Trump split a major segment of the Republican party away from the establishment with a blunt, forceful style and hard-line policy positions. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated a challenge from the Left by Senato…
Remembering Robert Chrisman
Herman Cain and the Rise of the Black Right
There have always been Black conservatives. Some of the most prominent Black political figures in this country’s history from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice may be termed conservatives. However, these conservatives were not elected officials. They served in either unofficial roles or were appointed. The rise of conservative Black politicians with an electoral base such as Herman Cain and Allen West is a new phenomenon. At least in theor…
At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race by Enid Logan
Journal Article “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race by Enid Logan Get access “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race by Enid Logan. New York, New York University Press, 2011. 229 pp. $23.00. Charles P. Henry Charles P. Henry University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Polit…
The Obama Phenomenon: Toward a Multiracial Democracy
Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. Beginning as a special issue of The Black Scholar , this probing collection illustrates the impact of “the Obama phenomenon” on the future of U.S. race relations through readings on Barack Obama's campaign as well as the idealism and pragmatism of the Obama administration. Some of the foremost scholars of African American politics and culture from…
Pride, Property, and Providence: Jonathan Edwards on Property Rights
Journal Article Pride, Property, and Providence: Jonathan Edwards on Property Rights Get access Caleb Henry Caleb Henry [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 53, Issue 3, Summer 2011, Pages 401–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq145 Published: 08 February 2011
Is Barack Obama the End of White Politics
Obama '08—Articulate and Clean
(2008). Obama '08—Articulate and Clean. The Black Scholar: Vol. 38, Barack Obama, pp. 3-16
Ralph Bunche: Academic Excellence and Global Responsibility
The pioneering career of Ralph Johnson Bunche in political science can only be briefly summarized in this limited space. Fortunately, an increasing number of works published in the last decade are rescuing his legacy for new generations. I have chosen to focus my comments on three aspects of his career: his education, his contributions to Howard University, and his contributions to the discipline of political science. (For his contributions to th…
Ralph Bunche and the Evolution of Human Rights
viewed the UN as a means, one means, to a larger end. That end was what Bunche called an mind, or what we today call, civil society. Second, I want to contend that Bunche unlike many of his colleagues, saw human rights from a pragmatic, political and secular perspective rather than a universalistic, legalistic and religious perspective. Scholars such as Richard Rorty and Michael Ignatieff are just now articulating Bunche's type of pragmatic and p…
A World View of Race Revisited
Charles P. Henry, A World View of Race Revisited, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 73, No. 2, The Legacy of Ralph J. Bunche and Education: Celebrating the Centenary Year of His Birth (Spring, 2004), pp. 137-146
The Politics of Racial Reparations
This article seeks to establish the necessary theoretical and political grounds for reparations. It is the aim of the article to examine the various ways in which scholars and politicians have framed the historical debate on reparations and then to introduce a possible approach that would take into consideration something more than slavery. In fact, the article concludes that slavery was just one aspect of the dispossession of the African in the …
Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other?
Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other
Journal Article Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other? By Charles P. Henry. New York: New York University Press and Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945–1969. By Michael L. Krenn. Armonk: Sharpe Get access David H. Anthony David H. Anthony University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
Civil War 2000
March 2001 Time magazine article entitled, comes to is illustrated with a photo of Clinton surrounded by surrounded by several Harlem icons. One of those icons is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., whose brilliance and behavior are so reminiscent of Clinton. The essay's author, Roger Rosenblatt, says [l]ike the Rev. Jesse Jackson, like Harlem's former Congressman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., like Gabriel Grimes, the preacher father in James Baldwin…
Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969
Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
Journal Article Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights. By Raymond Wolters. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1996. x, 499 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-56000-257-3.) Get access Charles Henry Charles Henry University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 741–742, https://do…
Ralph J. Bunche: Selected Speeches and Writings
Ralph J. Bunche: Selected Speeches and Writings is the only collection currently available of speeches and writings many unpublished and previously unavailable of one of this century's foremost African-American political and intellectual leaders.Bunche was a pioneer in every sense of the word. The first black American to hold a doctorate in political science, Bunche established the political science department at Howard University and co-founded …
U.S. Human Rights Petitions before the Un
(1996). U.S. Human Rights Petitions before the Un. The Black Scholar: Vol. 26, The Nation of Islam: 1930–1996, pp. 60-73
Ralph Bunche: An African American in South Africa
(1993). Ralph Bunche: An African American in South Africa. The Black Scholar: Vol. 23, The Urban Crisis 1993, pp. 27-30
Les questions écrites des députés. Analyse des usages d'une procédure parlementaire
are also mayors and/or members of departmental assemblies. Looking at the questions' authors, rather than the procedure, use made of this practice appears quite unequal : 10 % ask less than .5 % of the questions, whereas at the other extreme 10 % ask more than 40 %. The statistical analysis provides information on the " laws " of distribution : the more recently elected, the fewer additional mandates, in particular of mayor, and thé more a deputy…
Human Rights and National Minorities in the United States
Three human rights myths serve to limit the debate over human rights in the United States and bias our perspective in dealing with the human rights claims of citizens from other countries. The first myth is that human rights belong solely to individuals and protect them largely from negative actions by the state. The second myth declares that civil and political rights are primary while economic, cultural, and social rights are secondary. The thi…
Protest is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics, by Dale Rogers Marshall, Rufus P. Browning and David H. Tabb
Based on extensive research in the ten largest cities in Northern California with sizable black and Hispanic populations, this award-winning study provides a major reassessment of minority groups attempts to gain equality in urban politics
Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969
Rainbow Coalitions in Four Big Cities: San Antonio, Denver, Chicago and Philadelphia
The election of black and Latino mayors in big cities during the past five years has provided the opportunity to critically examine the role of minority mobilization and coalitions. The focus of this study is on the election of four minority mayors, Henry Cisneros in San Antonio in 1981, Federico Peña in Denver, Harold Washington in Chicago, and Wilson Goode in Philadelphia, all in 1983. The pioneering study by Browning, Marshall, and Tabb (1984)…
Les questions écrites des députés. Analyse des usages d'une procédure parlementaire
are also mayors and/or members of departmental assemblies. Looking at the questions' authors, rather than the procedure, use made of this practice appears quite unequal : 10 % ask less than .5 % of the questions, whereas at the other extreme 10 % ask more than 40 %. The statistical analysis provides information on the " laws " of distribution : the more recently elected, the fewer additional mandates, in particular of mayor, and thé more a deputy…
Is Barack Obama the End of White Politics
Obama '08—Articulate and Clean
(2008). Obama '08—Articulate and Clean. The Black Scholar: Vol. 38, Barack Obama, pp. 3-16
Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
Journal Article Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights. By Raymond Wolters. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1996. x, 499 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-56000-257-3.) Get access Charles Henry Charles Henry University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 741–742, https://do…
Clarence Thomas and the National Black Identity
Educating for Human Rights
Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, once said that America did not create human rights-rather, human created America. Any government might make the same claim whose founders strove to decentralize power and increase the control people had over their lives. Certainly, it is easy for the citizens of superpowers like the Soviet Union and the United States to believe human began with them. Therefore, it is even more important for cit…
Culture and African American Politics
Journal Article Culture and African American Politics. By Charles P. Henry. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xii + 140 pp. $22.50.) Get access Hanes Walton, Jr. Hanes Walton, Jr. Savannah State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 360–361, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078201 Published: 01 June 1991
Big Philanthropy and the Funding of Black Organizations
The general overview of foundation giving to promote black interests and the specific look at the Ford-MARC relationship support the notion that few foundation grants will go to “controversial” or “political” projects. The Peterson Commission estimated that only three percent of all private foundation grants are “innovative” and an even smaller percentage are “politically controversial.” Most often, these projects usually become controversial aft…
Ebony Elite: America's Most Influential Blacks
The Political Role of the "Bad Nigger"
A favorite rationale for the status of blacks in America today has been the absence of black leadership. Attacks on the weakness of Afro-American leaders have risen to new peaks with the election of a conservative Republican president and an equally conservative Republican Senate. Yet such attacks were also prominent twenty years ago and subsided only for a brief period in the 1960s. The death of Martin Luther King marked the resumption of the se…
Ralph Bunche and the Apsa
political parties just as much as the old, simple patronage governments needed political parties. It is not party systems but the two-party system in particular that no longer can suffice. No amount of meddling by well-intentioned reformers can revive the two-party system. Most of the efforts to do so are actually counterproductive. Most political scientists would agree that the answer to a declining two-party system is not going to be found in g…
Protest is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics, by Dale Rogers Marshall, Rufus P. Browning and David H. Tabb
Based on extensive research in the ten largest cities in Northern California with sizable black and Hispanic populations, this award-winning study provides a major reassessment of minority groups attempts to gain equality in urban politics
Rainbow Coalitions in Four Big Cities: San Antonio, Denver, Chicago and Philadelphia
The election of black and Latino mayors in big cities during the past five years has provided the opportunity to critically examine the role of minority mobilization and coalitions. The focus of this study is on the election of four minority mayors, Henry Cisneros in San Antonio in 1981, Federico Peña in Denver, Harold Washington in Chicago, and Wilson Goode in Philadelphia, all in 1983. The pioneering study by Browning, Marshall, and Tabb (1984)…
Delivering Daniel: The Dialectic of Ideology and Theology in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr
Jesse Jackson and the Decline of Liberalism in Presidential Politics
Culture and African American Politics
Winner of 1990 Best Book of the Year Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Educating for Human Rights
Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, once said that America did not create human rights-rather, human created America. Any government might make the same claim whose founders strove to decentralize power and increase the control people had over their lives. Certainly, it is easy for the citizens of superpowers like the Soviet Union and the United States to believe human began with them. Therefore, it is even more important for cit…
Culture and African American Politics
Journal Article Culture and African American Politics. By Charles P. Henry. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xii + 140 pp. $22.50.) Get access Hanes Walton, Jr. Hanes Walton, Jr. Savannah State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 360–361, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078201 Published: 01 June 1991
Clarence Thomas and the National Black Identity
Ralph Bunche: An African American in South Africa
(1993). Ralph Bunche: An African American in South Africa. The Black Scholar: Vol. 23, The Urban Crisis 1993, pp. 27-30
Les questions écrites des députés. Analyse des usages d'une procédure parlementaire
are also mayors and/or members of departmental assemblies. Looking at the questions' authors, rather than the procedure, use made of this practice appears quite unequal : 10 % ask less than .5 % of the questions, whereas at the other extreme 10 % ask more than 40 %. The statistical analysis provides information on the " laws " of distribution : the more recently elected, the fewer additional mandates, in particular of mayor, and thé more a deputy…
Human Rights and National Minorities in the United States
Three human rights myths serve to limit the debate over human rights in the United States and bias our perspective in dealing with the human rights claims of citizens from other countries. The first myth is that human rights belong solely to individuals and protect them largely from negative actions by the state. The second myth declares that civil and political rights are primary while economic, cultural, and social rights are secondary. The thi…
Ralph J. Bunche: Selected Speeches and Writings
Ralph J. Bunche: Selected Speeches and Writings is the only collection currently available of speeches and writings many unpublished and previously unavailable of one of this century's foremost African-American political and intellectual leaders.Bunche was a pioneer in every sense of the word. The first black American to hold a doctorate in political science, Bunche established the political science department at Howard University and co-founded …
U.S. Human Rights Petitions before the Un
(1996). U.S. Human Rights Petitions before the Un. The Black Scholar: Vol. 26, The Nation of Islam: 1930–1996, pp. 60-73
Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
Journal Article Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights. By Raymond Wolters. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1996. x, 499 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-56000-257-3.) Get access Charles Henry Charles Henry University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 741–742, https://do…
Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969
Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other?
Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other
Journal Article Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other? By Charles P. Henry. New York: New York University Press and Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945–1969. By Michael L. Krenn. Armonk: Sharpe Get access David H. Anthony David H. Anthony University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
Civil War 2000
March 2001 Time magazine article entitled, comes to is illustrated with a photo of Clinton surrounded by surrounded by several Harlem icons. One of those icons is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., whose brilliance and behavior are so reminiscent of Clinton. The essay's author, Roger Rosenblatt, says [l]ike the Rev. Jesse Jackson, like Harlem's former Congressman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., like Gabriel Grimes, the preacher father in James Baldwin…
The Politics of Racial Reparations
This article seeks to establish the necessary theoretical and political grounds for reparations. It is the aim of the article to examine the various ways in which scholars and politicians have framed the historical debate on reparations and then to introduce a possible approach that would take into consideration something more than slavery. In fact, the article concludes that slavery was just one aspect of the dispossession of the African in the …
Ralph Bunche and the Evolution of Human Rights
viewed the UN as a means, one means, to a larger end. That end was what Bunche called an mind, or what we today call, civil society. Second, I want to contend that Bunche unlike many of his colleagues, saw human rights from a pragmatic, political and secular perspective rather than a universalistic, legalistic and religious perspective. Scholars such as Richard Rorty and Michael Ignatieff are just now articulating Bunche's type of pragmatic and p…
A World View of Race Revisited
Charles P. Henry, A World View of Race Revisited, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 73, No. 2, The Legacy of Ralph J. Bunche and Education: Celebrating the Centenary Year of His Birth (Spring, 2004), pp. 137-146
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