"An excellent overview" of African American, LGBT, and other minority-group conservatives ( The New Republic).In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a modern conservatism that cuts across boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and gay, is to occupy an awkward and contested political positi...

The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays also raise fundamental questions about the relationship between citizenship and leadership, a...

“The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the ‘Long New Negro Renaissance,’ triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done a better job of tracing those religious roots through the civil rights–black power era than Professor Dillard.”—Komozi Woodard, Professor of History, Public Policy & Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of...