African American Coping in the Political Sphere - Paperbackby Jas M. Sullivan (Author), Moriah Harman (Author), Sherman A. James (Foreword by) Jas M. Sullivan is Russell B. Long Professor of Political Science, Psychology, and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author (with Jonathan Winburn and William Cross) of Dimensions of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Beliefs and author editor (with William Cross, coeditor) of Meaning Making, Internalized Racism, and