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Book SynopsisExplicates the influence of race on black Americans' trust perceptions
Trade ReviewShayla Nunnally has written a groundbreaking study of the development of trust among Black Americans. Trust in Black America is empirically sound and theoretically sophisticated. It is a foundational study that should be read by anyone interested in race and racial politics in the United States. -- Marion Orr,co-editor of Power in the City
This book arrives at a propitious moment. Recent partisan polarization and its racial inflections raise important empirical and normative questions about political trust and its relationship to race. With this in mind, Shayla Nunnally's Trust in Black Americaattempts to develop an account of trust that combines structuralism and methodological individualism, and in the process, she hopes to redefine our understanding of the American racial order and revise our thinking about trust. -- Michael Javen Fortner * Political Science Quarterly *
This is an innovative and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, scholars, and those generally interested in the connections among race, politics, and psychology. -- A.R.S. Lorenz * CHOICE *
Trust in Black America fills a long-overdue gap in the race and politics literature. As a concept, political trust has been around a long time, but it's seldom applied to race. But as the title suggests, Nunnally also explores the broader contours of trust, including its social and contextual variants, with stunning results. Given its focus upon trust writ large, something I'd never seen in political science--until now, Trust in Black America is a must read for anyone who cares about American politics. -- Christopher S. Parker,author of Fighting for Democracy
Given the dramatic racial and ethnic changes in American political life in the last generation, Nunnallys work substantially expands our understanding of the varied ways in which people learn and experience politics.Trust in Black America complicates Political Sciences definition of trust with an exploration of African Americans internalization and externalization of race.This is a perfectly reasonable conceptualization except that Nunnally is the first to have done so. Her subtle and detailed framework of racial reasoning, moves the discussion of race beyond Black and White, into the layered views African Americans hold toward Latinos and Asians in the increasingly complex American population.This volume is a work of lasting significance. -- Dianne Pinderhughes,author of Black Politics after the Civil Rights Revolution
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part I: Understanding Race and Trust 1 Introduction: Race, Risk, and Discrimination 2 Explaining Blacks' (Dis)trust: A Th eory of Discriminative Racial-Psychological ProcessingPart II: Racial Internalization 3 Being Black in America: Racial Socialization 4 Trust No One: Navigating Race and Racism 5 Trusting Bodies, Racing Trust Part III: Racial Externalization 6 Th e Societal Context 7 Th e Political Context 8 Conclusion: In Whom Do Black Americans Trust? Appendix A: NPSS Descriptive Statistics of Survey Sample Appendix B: Survey Sample and U.S. Census Quota Matching Notes References Index About the Author
