Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Note -- Special Anniversary Section -- NCOBPS: Twenty Years Later -- NCOBPS: Observations on the State of the Organization -- Feature Articles -- Racial Belief Systems, Religious Guidance, and African-American Political Participation -- White/Black Perceptions of the Electability of Black Political Candidates -- Electoral Politics, Affirmative Action, and the Supreme Court: The Case of Richmond v. Croson -- Political Responses to Underemployment among African Americans -- The Politics of Desegregation in Higher Education: Analysis of Adams States Progress -- SYMPOSIUM: Big-City Black Mayors: Have They Made a Difference? -- Introduction -- Big-City Black Mayors: An Overview -- Black Mayoral Leadership in Atlanta: A Comment -- Mayor of the Colony: Effective Mayoral Leadership as a Matter of Public Perception -- Black Political and Mayoral Leadership in Birmingham and New Orleans -- The Political Legacy of Harold Washington: 1983-1987 -- Black Political Power in the City of Angels: An Analysis of Mayor Tom Bradley's Electoral Success -- The Politics of Detroit: A Look Ahead -- Mayor W. Wilson Goode of Philadelphia: The Technocrat -- Black Mayoral Leadership: A Twenty-Year Perspective -- Book Forum -- Review Essays: Black Politics -- The Pioneering Books on Black Politics and the Political Science Community, 1903-1965 -- Independent Leveraging and Local Community Development -- Bibliographic Essays: Race, Class, and Urban Politics -- Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Resources -- Separate and Unequal Societies in Urban Politics -- Social Science, Public Policy, and Persistent Poverty among Urban Blacks: A Review of the Literature -- Urban Politics -- Race, Class, and Politics: A Conceptual Critique of William J. Wilson's Model of American Racial History