Dianne M. Pinderhughes

Dianne M. Pinderhughes is an eminent scholar of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Her 1987 book, Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory is a seminal work on the limits of pluralism when studying blacks in Chicago politics. While many of the tenets of pluralism worked for Polish and Irish immigrants, they not only did not work for black Chicagoans, but, in many ways, contributed to their continued exclusion from Chicago politics. The implications of her work go beyond Chicago, and have demonstrated the limits of pluralism as a framework for the study of racial and ethnic minority politics.