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Michael Hanchard:  Ralph J. Bunche Award

caption: Michael HanchardMichael Hanchard, professor and chair of Africana studies and director of the Marginalized Populations Project in the Center for Africana Studies, received the 2019 Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. The annual award honors the best scholarly work in political science on ethnic and cultural pluralism.

Dr. Hanchard received the award for his book The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy. In it, he argues that exclusionary policies have always been central to democratic practices since their beginnings in classical times, discusses how marginalization is reinforced in modern politics and explains why these contradictions need to be fully examined if the dynamics of democracy are to be truly understood. The book was named one of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2018.

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