ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that some political scientists do not study race and the African-American political experience because they see such research efforts as a form of social danger. One of the few white scholars to talk openly about this social danger reality is historian Patrick Washburn. Given that race has been an important issue in American society since the 1619 arrival of African Americans as slaves, the publishing history of political science journals was of paramount importance in our choice of journals. The implication is that getting more African Americans on school boards may be a better solution than an externally imposed federal policy like school desegregation. The chapter examines the articles presented in two of the oldest disciplinary journals. The journals are: The Political Science Quarterly and The American Political Science Review, from 1886 through 1990 and 1906 through 1990, respectively.
