Omar H. Ali


Omar H. Ali is an assistant professor of history at Towson University in Maryland. A Fulbright Scholar, he has received research grants from Harvard University and the University of Michigan. An honors graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his PhD from Columbia University and has served as an editor for Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.


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Cover of In the Balance of Power

In the Balance of Power

Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States

With the presidential election looming, the “black vote” has been deemed a crucial portion of the electorate. Historically, most black voters have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties—the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal; and, since the New Deal, and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement, the Democratic Party.…

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