Robert C. Smith

Robert C. Smith is professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his graduate degrees from UCLA and Howard University. Besides Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same, Smith is also the author of the Encyclopedia of African-American Politics, scores of articles and essays, a dozen books, and the just-completed manuscript The Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance: The Elections and Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama. In 1998 he was awarded Howard University’s Distinguished Ph.D. Alumni Award.