In the sake of clarity, I should point out that this paper only garnered a B/B+. My professor's notes:
The main issue you raise, i.e., why is turnout so low among black voters, is an important and interesting one. This basic question is obscured by the second question you ask (at least in an [unintelligible--"roundabout" from context] way), why do African-American voters choose one party or another? It might have been better if you had chosen to focus on just one of these questions. The conflation of the two issues is particularly evident in your discussion of the two theories where you seem to go back and forth between the two issues. Still, I can see that you put a lot of work into this essay. Moreover, you have some good insights and I like the way in which you use history and social events to develop your analysis. I would say your treatment of Marx actually sounds more like a description of the Weberian approach, actually.
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The main issue you raise, i.e., why is turnout so low among black voters, is an important and interesting one. This basic question is obscured by the second question you ask (at least in an [unintelligible--"roundabout" from context] way), why do African-American voters choose one party or another? It might have been better if you had chosen to focus on just one of these questions. The conflation of the two issues is particularly evident in your discussion of the two theories where you seem to go back and forth between the two issues. Still, I can see that you put a lot of work into this essay. Moreover, you have some good insights and I like the way in which you use history and social events to develop your analysis. I would say your treatment of Marx actually sounds more like a description of the Weberian approach, actually.