Michael K. Fauntroy
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Michael K. Fauntroy is an American
Education and positions
Fauntroy attended Hampton University, where he obtained a BA degree in political science.[1] He then attended graduate school at Howard University, earning an MA degree in Public Affairs followed by a PhD in political science, with a focus on American government and African American political behavior.[1]
From 1993 to 1996, Fauntroy was a Civil Rights Analyst at The United States Commission on Civil Rights.[1] Between 1998 and 2001, he taught at American University, The University of the District of Columbia, Trinity College, and Howard University.[1] During those years he was also an analyst at The Congressional Research Service.[1] In 2002 Fauntroy joined the faculty at George Mason University.[1] In 2013, he moved to Howard University.[1]
Research
Fauntroy has published several academic books. In 2003, he published Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia.
In 2007, Fauntroy published Republicans and the Black Vote, which was reprinted as a paperback in 2008.[1] In Republicans and the Black Vote, Fauntroy studies the developments that caused the Republican Party to slide from nearly unanimous support among African Americans during The Reconstruction era to nearly unanimous opposition in the 21st century.[3] The book presents a history of the relationship between the Republican Party and African American voters, from the party's founding through the New Deal era to the early 2000s, with a particularly in-depth focus on the four decades starting around 1970.[4] Fauntroy demonstrates that the beginnings of African American voters' near-unanimous rejection of the Republican Party, to the extent that regularly only single digit percentages of African American voters cast ballots for the GOP, only began in 1964 with the candidacy of Barry Goldwater and the ideological clarification of the two major American parties.[5] This was the culmination of a longer trend in which the party identification of African American voters had been steadily shifting towards the Democratic Party for decades, with about two thirds of African American voters supporting the Democratic Party during the New Deal.[5] In Republicans and the Black Vote, Fauntroy studies why this shift happened, supplementing his historical analysis by interviewing Republican policy makers and African American members of the Republican Party.[6] Fauntroy argues that the movement of African Americans away from the GOP was caused both by the clarification of Republican policy stances that are at odds with the priorities of many African American voters, as well as the Republican Party's usage of racially charged symbolism and rhetoric throughout a series of election campaigns.[7] Fauntroy therefore attributes the very low levels of support for the Republican Party among African American voters both to the GOP's public policy and to its political strategy.[8] Republicans and the Black Vote was a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award in 2007.[9]
Fauntroy has been interviewed, or his work has been cited, in media outlets including
Selected works
- Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia (2003)
- Republicans and the Black Vote (2007)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Michael K. Fauntroy Profile". Howard University. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Clement, Bell (1 October 2004). "Review Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia". Washington History. 16 (2): 117–118.
- ^ "Review Republicans and the Black Vote". Reference & Research Book News. 22 (2). 1 May 2007.
- ^ Reiter, H. L. (1 June 2007). "Review Republicans and the Black Vote". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 44 (10): 1829.
- ^ a b Bitzer, J. Michael (22 September 2007). "Review Republicans and the Black Vote". International Social Science Review. 82 (3–4): 197.
- ^ Ford, Vernon (1 February 2007). "Review Republicans and the Black Vote". Booklist. 103 (11): 23.
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- ^ "Book of the Year Award Finalist". Foreword Magazine. 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Qiu, Linda (5 June 2020). "Trump's False Claim That 'Nobody Has Ever Done' More for the Black Community Than He Has". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Brown, DeNeen L.; Roig-Franzia, Manuel (8 February 2019). "'Railroaded': Roger Stone seeks Trump pardon for black nationalist Marcus Garvey". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Dozier, Kimberly (27 May 2020). "As Washington D.C. Weighs Reopening, African Americans in the Nation's Capital Brace for the Worst". Time. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Satherley, Dan (13 June 2020). "Freeing the slaves had 'questionable' results - Donald Trump". Newshub. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Michael K. Fauntroy". C-SPAN. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Michael Fauntroy Discusses Trump Speech and Presidential Polls on CTV News Canada". CTV News. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Michael K. Fauntroy, Contributor". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 July 2020.