John McCartney is a political theorist and graduate of University of Iowa (Ph.D.) He is currently the Department Head and Associate Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College, Easton PA. During 1979-85, McCartney served as President to the Vanguard Party (a Social Democratic Political Party) in the Bahamas. Between the period of 1977-82, he was a candidate for the Bahamian Parliament (elections held every five years). John McCartney has taught courses on topics such as: Black Political Thought in America, African Politics, Politics of the Caribbean and Latin America, Comparative Politics, etc. In 1994, as part of the Lawrence University Main Hall Forum, McCartney presented on the issue of “Black Power in the 1990s”. McCartney is the author of Black Power Ideologies: An essay on African American Political Thought (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992). He is the co-editor of The Struggle for Freedom in the Bahamas (Chicago: Vanguard Books, 1981). McCartney is currently working on a manuscript entitled: Political Ideologies in Contemporary Caribbean.