What is it about?
By using computer-assisted text analysis, and an up-to-date review of the literature, we replicate and extend Walton, Miller, and McCormick's 1995 research on trends in race research in political science.
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Why is it important?
Beyond the fact that the late Hanes Walton and his coauthors wrote an important paper about the study of race, we believe our current work provides a service. Replication studies aren't common enough in our field, and systematic literature reviews tend to appear in select journals and state-of-the-discipline books. Our recently-published paper is both a replication and a systematic review all wrapped into one. Although we focus on African Americans here, we recognize that insights from our work might inform analyses of the evolution of ethnic (e.g. Latino and Asian), gender, and sexuality politics scholarship.
Perspectives
This paper is different from others I've written because it is a "meta-study" about race (in other words, my coauthor and I were doing research on the research).
Ray Block
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
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This page is a summary of: Say our name (and say it right)! Extending Walton et al. on the evolution of race in political science scholarship, Research & Politics, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2053168016652420.
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