August H Nimtz Jr

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animtz@umn.edu
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Political Science .
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267 19th Ave S

Affiliations

• Political Science
• African American & African Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1973.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• African politics
• comparative politics
• ethnic politics
• Marxism
• political development
• politics of the transition to socialism
• political economy

Courses Taught

• Pol 3379 - Politics of Race, Class and Ethnicity
• Pol 4255 - Comparative Real Time Political Analysis: Marxist versus Liberal Perspectives
• Pol 4463 - Cuban Revolution
• Pol 4478 - Contemporary Politics in Africa and the Colonial Legacy
• Pol 8633 - Comparative Sociopolitical Change

Publications

• Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis. Nimtz Jr, August, Palgrave Macmillan, Author, 2019.
• Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets-or Both. Nimtz Jr, August, Palgrave Macmillan, Author, 2014.
• Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets-or Both. Nimtz Jr, August, Palgrave Macmillan, Author, 2014.
• "Marx and Engels's Electoral Strategy: The Alleged versus The Real." New Political Science (Sept. 2010)
• "A Return to Lenin--but without Marx and Engels?" Science & Society. Oct. 2009.
• "Cuban Solidarity and Disaster Response," Latin American Perspectives (March 2009)
• “The Eurocentric Marx and Engels and Other Related Myths,“Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies, eds. Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus (Cambridge U.P.; 2002) 9,477 words. Translated into Chinese in China Left Review (Spring 2009)
• "The Rapist Returns: More Lessons from Katrina's Aftermath," MRzine [Monthly Review on-line publication] Sept. 9, 2007
• "Fení´menos naturais versus fení´menos socais: Cuba e as Lií§íµes do Katrina," Cadernos do CEAS [Centro de Estudos e Aí§í£o Social] 225 [January/March 2007] ["Natural versus Social Phenomenon; Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina," Journal of the Center for the Study of Social Action {Salvador, Bahia, Brazil}]. [This is a translation of my Nov. 2006 article originally published in Black Scholar.]
• “Natural versus Social Phenomena: Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina,“The Black Scholar. Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov. 2006)
• “Engels.“History of World Trade since 1450. ed. John McCusker (Thomson, 2006)
• “Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina.“MRZine: Monthly Review. Nov. 18, 2005.
• Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The “˜Absolute Democracy’ or “˜Defiled Republic’ (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2003)
• “Marx and Engels: The Prototypical Transnational Actors,“Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms, eds. Kathryn Sikkink, James Riker, Sanjeev Khagram. (University of Minnesota Press; 2002)
• “Class Struggle Under Empire?: In Defence of Marx and Engels,“International Socialism, No. 96, Autumn 2002.
• “Marxism,“The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 2nd Edition, ed. Joel Krieger (Oxford U.P.; 2001)
• Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000)
• "Marx and Engels - The Unsung Heroes of the Democratic Breakthrough" Science & Society, Vol. 63, no. 2, 203-231 (Summer, 1999). Translated into Chinese in Shehuizhuyi yanjiu [Socialist Studies], 2002; available at Chinese Political Science Net .
• Marxism: An Interpretive Essay: Nimtz Jr, August, The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Oxford University Press, 569-575, 1993.
• “Statement: Proceedings of the Conference on African-Americans and the Right to Self- Determination, Hamline University School of Law,“ Hamline Law Review, Vol. 17 (Fall 1993), No.1

Awards

• Horace T. Morse-University of Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2001 - 2002
• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, 1991