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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Michael K. Fauntroy
| image = Michael K. Fauntroy 2010.jpg
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| caption = Fauntroy in 2010
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| fields = {{ubl|[[Political science]]}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Hampton University]]|[[Howard University]]}}
| workplaces = {{ubl|[[United States Commission on Civil Rights]]|[[Congressional Research Service]]|[[American University]]|[[University of the District of Columbia]]|Trinity College||[[George Mason University]]|Howard University}}
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'''Michael K. Fauntroy''' is an
==Education and positions==
Fauntroy attended [[Hampton University]], where he obtained a BA degree in
From 1993 to 1996, Fauntroy was a Civil Rights Analyst at The [[United States Commission on Civil Rights]].<ref name=profile/> Between 1998 and 2001, he taught at [[American University]], The [[University of the District of Columbia]], Trinity College, and [[Howard University]].<ref name=profile/> During those years he was also an analyst at The [[Congressional Research Service]].<ref name=profile/> In 2002 Fauntroy joined the faculty at [[George Mason University]].<ref name=profile/> In 2013, he moved to Howard University.<ref name=profile/>
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Fauntroy has published several academic books. In 2003, he published ''Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia''.<ref name=clement>{{cite journal |first=Bell |last=Clement |title=Review Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia |journal=Washington History |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=117–118 |date=1 October 2004}}</ref> In ''Home Rule or House Rule?'', Fauntroy studies the struggle for self-governance in Washington DC, which is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States Congress under [[District of Columbia home rule]] without having any [[District of Columbia voting rights|voting representation]] in Congress.<ref name=clement/> Fauntroy argues that the home rule of Washington, DC has eroded local governance, largely because DC is subject to partisan fighting within the federal government.<ref name=clement/> Fauntroy also points to specific instances in which the congressional representatives of DC's suburban neighbors have used their congressional powers to the detriment of the District, and in many cases Fauntroy argues this was motivated by racial animus.<ref name=clement/>
In 2007, Fauntroy published ''Republicans and the Black Vote'', which was reprinted as a paperback in 2008.<ref name=profile/> In ''Republicans and the Black Vote'', Fauntroy studies the developments that caused the Republican Party to slide from nearly unanimous support among African Americans during The [[Reconstruction era]] to nearly unanimous opposition in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote |journal=Reference & Research Book News |volume=22 |issue=2 |date=1 May 2007}}</ref> The book presents a history of the relationship between the Republican Party and African American voters, from the party's founding through the [[New Deal]] era to the early 2000s, with a particularly in-depth focus on the four decades starting around 1970.<ref>{{cite journal |first=H. L. |last=Reiter |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote |journal=CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries |volume=44 |issue=10 |pages=1829 |date=1 June 2007}}</ref> Fauntroy demonstrates that the beginnings of African American voters' near-unanimous rejection of the Republican Party, to the extent that regularly only single digit percentages of African American voters cast ballots for the GOP, only began in 1964 with the candidacy of [[Barry Goldwater]] and the ideological clarification of the two major American parties.<ref name=bitzer>{{cite journal |first=J. Michael |last=Bitzer |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote |journal=International Social Science Review |volume=82 |issue=3–4 |pages=197 |date=22 September 2007}}</ref> This was the culmination of a longer trend in which the party identification of African American voters had been steadily shifting towards the Democratic Party for decades, with about two thirds of African American voters supporting the Democratic Party during the New Deal.<ref name=bitzer/> In ''Republicans and the Black Vote'', Fauntroy studies why this shift happened, supplementing his historical analysis by interviewing Republican policy makers and African American members of the Republican Party.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Vernon |last=Ford |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote |journal=Booklist |volume=103 |issue=11 |pages=23 |date=1 February 2007}}</ref> Fauntroy argues that the movement of African Americans away from the GOP was caused both by the clarification of Republican policy stances that are at odds with the priorities of many African American voters, as well as the Republican Party's usage of racially charged symbolism and rhetoric throughout a series of election campaigns.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Keith |last=Reeves |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=122 |issue=4 |pages=679 |year=2007|doi=10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01692.x }}</ref> Fauntroy therefore attributes the very low levels of support for the Republican Party among African American voters both to the GOP's public policy and to its political strategy.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Peter W. |last=Wielhouwer |title=Review Republicans and the Black Vote and Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln |journal=Perspectives on Politics |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=825–827 |date=December 2007 |doi=10.1017/S1537592707072416|s2cid=143501890 }}</ref> ''Republicans and the Black Vote'' was a finalist for the ''
Fauntroy has been interviewed, or his work has been cited, in media outlets including ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/politics/trump-black-african-americans-fact-check.html |title=Trump's False Claim That 'Nobody Has Ever Done' More for the Black Community Than He Has |work=The New York Times |first=Linda |last=Qiu |date=5 June 2020 |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/08/railroaded-roger-stone-seeks-trump-pardon-black-nationalist-marcus-garvey/ |title='Railroaded': Roger Stone seeks Trump pardon for black nationalist Marcus Garvey |
==Selected works==
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==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:George Mason University faculty]]
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[[Category:Howard University alumni]]
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