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Race and National Politics in America

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Partner:: New School
Location:: The New School
New York, NY
Event Date:: 02.12.08
Speaker:: Greggory Keith Spence
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Summary: Race and National Politics in America: A Historical Prospective with Greggory Keith Spence.

Greggory Keith Spence, Professor in Professional Practice at The New School, delivers a lecture on race and national politics in the United States.

Race has played a major role in national politics since the founding of the United States. The three-fifths clause of the Constitution dramatically increased the power of the Southern states: It guaranteed them one-third more seats in Congress than their free population warranted, resulted in the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800, and gave slaveholders control of the presidency for fifty years and of the Speaker's chair and the chairmanship of House Ways and Means for forty years.

During the nation's first sixty-two years, the only presidents reelected (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson) were slaveholders, as were eighteen of thirty-one Supreme Court justices. Of the seven justices who delivered the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision, a majority were slaveholders.

The post-Reconstruction era saw the rise of Jim Crow, the establishment of the Black Codes, and the active suppression of the African-American vote both regionally and nationally. The twentieth century was well into its sixth decade before the rise of the civil rights movement, a progressive U.S. Supreme Court, a succession of activist presidents, and the post-War World II population migration of African-Americans from the South to the large cities of the North, Midwest, and West changed the national political dynamic.

In the last twenty-five years, a number of African-Americans have risen to national prominence (Shirley Chisholm, Colin Powell, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Carol Moseley Braun). We will explore the implications of recent statewide races (from Doug Wilder in Virginia to Deval Patrick in Massachusetts) and of Obama's presidential candidacy both for African-Americans and for the nation as a whole - The New School

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Greggory Keith Spence

Greggory Keith Spence is a Professor in Professional Practice at The New School.

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01 hr 52 min 33 sec

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01.: Introduction

02 min 25 sec

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02.: Election of Thomas Jefferson

04 min 45 sec

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03.: Slaveholders in Control

03 min 05 sec

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04.: The South's Objection to Lincoln

01 min 54 sec

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05.: Political Participation of Blacks

03 min 43 sec

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06.: Tilden-Hayes Election in 1876

02 min 53 sec

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07.: Black Migration to the North

02 min 23 sec

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08.: Voting Rights Act

03 min 58 sec

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09.: Black Presidential Candidates

02 min 26 sec

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10.: The Bradley Effect

07 min 00 sec

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11.: Caution to Black Candidates

01 min 38 sec

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12.: Historian's Problem

07 min 56 sec

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13.: Obama's Iowa Victory

06 min 01 sec

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14.: Race in South Carolina

06 min 52 sec

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15.: Results in Florida and New Hampshire

05 min 22 sec

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16.: Latino Vote

02 min 01 sec

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17.: Q & A

00 min 32 sec

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18.: Q1: Problem with Polls

04 min 06 sec

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19.: Q2: Influence of High Profile African-Americans

06 min 43 sec

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20.: Q3: Black Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

05 min 24 sec

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21.: Q4: Political Land Mines

05 min 32 sec

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22.: Q5: Obama's Moderate Position

03 min 57 sec

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23.: Q6: Inconsistent Media Coverage

05 min 16 sec

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24.: Q7: Superdelegates

02 min 29 sec

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25.: Q8: Superceding Race

07 min 31 sec

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26.: Q9: Race Identity Post-Obama

06 min 19 sec

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The Race Card and South Carolina’s Primary

04 min 01 sec

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Greggory Keith Spence describes how mainstream media's use of the race card during South Carolina primary coverage backfired, aiding in Barack Obama's overwhelming victory.
Slavery and Early National Politics

05 min 46 sec

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Greggory Keith Spence details the southern slave states heavy influence on national politics during the first 60 years of the United States.
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