February 23, 2006

featuring Donna Brazile

Prepared by

Krista McDonald, Director
Christopher Galluzzo, Assistant Director

Rentschler Library
Miami University Hamilton

Donna Brazile

In addition to her book, Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, Ms. Brazile has authored a significant number of articles and is a regular columnist for Roll Call. This section includes a selection of her writings.

Brazile, Donna. “In New Orleans, the Question Echoes: 'Where Ya At?'” Roll Call, 7 February 2006.

________. "Don't Give in to Katrina Fatigue: There are Still Millions of Gulf Coast Americans Who Need Our Help" Time, 28 November 2005, 39.

________. "I Will Rebuild with You, Mr. President." The Washington Post, 17 September 2005, A21.

________. "Hurricane Politics Aside, a Democrat Sees Solidarity with Bush as Constructive." Christian Science Monitor, 20 September 2005, 9.

________. “Blacks and the Republican Party: Let the Courtship Begin.” Roll Call, 19 July 2005.

________. “Will GOP's Effort to Make Inroads With Blacks Finally Pay Off?” Roll Call, 1 March 2005.

________. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

________. “Democratic Party Must Repair Ties With Black Voters.” Roll Call, 26 June 2003.

________. "The African American Vote." In The Manship School Guide to Political Communication. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999, 344.

Race, Class and Politics

Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., and Lawrence J. Hanks. Black and Multiracial Politics in America. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Blauner, Bob. "Race in the 2000 Election: Still the Big News." In Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

________. "White Privilege: The Key to Racial Oppression." In Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

Class Matters. New York: Times Books, 2005.

Fletcher, Bill, Jr. "How Race Enters Class in the United States." In What's Class Got To Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2004.

Guinier, Lani, and Gerald Torres. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

hooks, bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Jensen, Robert. The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege. San Francisco: City Lights, 2005.

Lustig, R. Jeffrey. "The Tangled Knot of Race and Class in America." In What's Class Got To Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2004.

McClain, Paula Denice, and Joseph Stewart. "Coalition Or Competition? Patterns of Interminority Group Relations." In “Can we all Get Along?": Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics. Boulder: Westview, 2006.

Rich, Wilbur C. The Politics of Minority Coalitions: Race, Ethnicity, and Shared Uncertainties. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

Segura, Gary M., and Shaun Bowler. Diversity in Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Stokes, Curtis, and Theresa Melendez. "Political Coalitions Between Communities of Color: Implications for a New Politics." In Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003.

Wilson, William J. The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Wise, Tim J. White Like Me: Reflection on Race from a Privileged Son. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2005.

Voting and Organizing

Banducci, Susan A., Todd Donovan, and Jeffrey A. Karp. "Effects of Minority Representation on Political Attitudes and Participation." In Diversity in Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Brown, Fannie L. "Developing Racial Understanding at the Grassroots Level: A Community Approach." In Promoting Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Understanding and Reconciliation. Washington, DC: CWLA Press, 2004.

Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Rodgers Korstad. “Resistance and Political Struggles.” In Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies of Duke University, 2001.

Cruz, Jose E. "Interminority Relations in Urban Settings: Lessons from the Black-Puerto Rican Experience." In Black and Multiracial Politics in America. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Kornbluh, Mark Lawrence. Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Kousser, J. Morgan. Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Laney, Garrine P. The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Historical Background and Current Issues. New York: Novinka Books, 2003.

Salomon, Larry R. Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color. Berkeley, CA: Chardon Press, 1998.

Valelly, Richard M. The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Walters, Ronald W. Freedom is Not enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

Wexler, Sanford. “Selma and the Voting Rights Act: 1965.” In An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999.