applied to American electoral politics, refers to the conduction of a political campaign by a black candidate in which racial issues and themes are minimized, if not avoided completely (Perry 1).

This is done to increase white electoral support, and the candidate is usually running for a position in a

district that has a white majority. Although deracialization has existed in the black political scene for a longer time,

this concept was particularly important to the 1989

elections in which nine African-American candidates were

elected or reelected to public office (Perry 1).

This election was not only important before of the

number of African-Americans who were elected, but also

because many of these positions represented the first time

that an African-American had been elected to that particular

position. Four of these nine successful candidates conducted

Barone also points out that 1994 was an excellent

election year for black candidates. New African-American

not threaten traditional black politics-the election of

this means in the overall context of black politics. Many

Dinkins' elections shows that this is also true of a large

the American voter so that neither style will remain in its

encouraging in that this expands the representation of black

For example, Charles V. Hamilton called on the Democrats to

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