Dr. Ray Block, Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, has had a very productive first semester at Penn State. Dr. Block has recently published Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics (University of Georgia Press) https://ugapress.org/book/9780820356051/losing-power/. He has also published an article entitled, Set in Stone? Predicting Confederate Monument Removal, from the American Political Science Association Review.