ABSTRACT
In the pantheon of the Political Science discipline Mack Henry Jones resides as the premier theorist in the subfield of black Politics. Jones's political thought and methodology have made him the consummate political scientist and scholar-activist. Jones was also one of the early theorists to develop substantive critique of the black neoconservatives who emerged with the advent of the Reagan Right in 1980. In fact, Jones, the methodologist, argues that "methods of scientific inquiry can enhance the quality of value judgments". In 1969, Mack Jones rendered in critical relief the problematic in white scholarship on the black political experience when he maintained that, "Black politics should not begin with a comparison of Black people and other 'ethnic minorities'." Jones knew that he was building theory that had to be tested against the dominant thinking on the black experience while being able to explain black political activity in all its variances.
