Hanes Walton, Jr.: architect of the black science of politics

Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.

The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations in his writings, and lobbying for the establishment of black politics as a subfield in political science.

This study comprehensively analyses Walton's corpus, while providing a history of the development of the study of black politics in political science.