Black Faces In The Mirror
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Black Faces In The Mirror
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Author : Katherine Tate
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Black Faces In The Mirror written by Katherine Tate and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Political Science categories.
Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relationship. The first half of the book examines whether black members of the U.S. House legislate and represent their constituents differently than white members do. Representation is broadly conceptualized to include not only legislators' roll call voting behavior and bill sponsorship, but also the symbolic acts in which they engage. The second half looks at the issue of representation from the perspective of ordinary African Americans based on a landmark national survey. Tate's findings are mixed. But, in the main, legislators' race does shape how they represent their constituents and how constituents evaluate them. African Americans view black representatives more positively than they do white representatives, even those who belong to their own political party. Black legislators, however, are just as likely as white representatives to sponsor and gain passage of bills in the House. Tate also concludes that black House members are more liberal as a group than are their black constituents, but that there is considerable divergence in the quality and type of representation they provide. The findings reported here will generate controversy in the fields of politics, law, and race, particularly as debate commences over renewing the Voting Rights Act, which is set to expire in 2007.
Black Faces In The Mirror
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Author : Katherine Tate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Black Faces In The Mirror written by Katherine Tate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African American legislators categories.
Black Mayors White Majorities
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Author : Ravi K. Perry
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022-07-19
Black Mayors White Majorities written by Ravi K. Perry and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with History categories.
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of African Americans elected to political office in cities where the majority of their constituents are not black. In the past, the leadership of black politicians was characterized as either "deracialized" or "racialized"--that is, as either focusing on politics that transcend race or as making black issues central to their agenda. Today many African American politicians elected to offices in non-majority-black cities are adopting a strategy that universalizes black interests as intrinsically relevant to the needs of their entire constituency. In Black Mayors, White Majorities Ravi K. Perry explores the conditions in which black mayors of majority-white cities are able to represent black interests and whether blacks' historically high expectations for black mayors are being realized. Perry uses Toledo and Dayton, Ohio, as case studies, and his analysis draws on interviews with mayors and other city officials, business leaders, and heads of civic organizations, in addition to official city and campaign documents and newspapers. Perry also analyzes mayoral speeches, the 2001 ward-level election results, and city demographics. Black Mayors, White Majorities encourages readers to think beyond the black-white dyad and instead to envision policies that can serve constituencies with the greatest needs as well as the general public.
Minorities And Representation In American Politics
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Author : Rebekah Herrick
language : en
Publisher: CQ Press
Release Date : 2016-01-29
Minorities And Representation In American Politics written by Rebekah Herrick and has been published by CQ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-29 with Political Science categories.
Minorities and Representation in American Politics is the first book of its kind to examine underrepresented minorities with a framework based on four types of representation—descriptive, formalistic, symbolic, and substantive. Through this lens, author Rebekah Herrick looks at race, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities not in isolation but synthesized within every chapter. This enables readers to better recognize both the similarities and differences of groups’ underrepresentation. Herrick also applies her unique and constructive approach to intergroup cooperation and intersectionality, highlighting the impact that groups can have on one another.
Black Like Me
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Author : John Howard Griffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
In Every Mirror She S Black A Novel
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Author : Lola Akinmade-Akerström
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
In Every Mirror She S Black A Novel written by Lola Akinmade-Akerström and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Businessmen categories.
Historic Firsts
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Author : Evelyn M. Simien
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Historic Firsts written by Evelyn M. Simien and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Political Science categories.
The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other "historic firsts": Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988. While unsuccessful, these campaigns were significant, as they rallied American voters across various racial, ethnic, and gender groups. One can also argue that they heightened the electoral prospects of future candidates. Can "historic firsts" bring formerly politically inactive people (those who previously saw no connection between campaigns and their own lives) into the electoral process, making it both relevant and meaningful? In Historic Firsts: How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics, Evelyn M. Simien makes the compelling argument that voters from various racial, ethnic, and gender groups take pride in and derive psychic benefit from such historic candidacies. They make linkages between the candidates in question and their own understanding of representation, and these linkages act to mobilize citizens to vote and become actively involved in campaigns. Where conventional approaches to the study of American political elections tend to focus on socioeconomic factors, or to study race or gender as isolated factors, Simien's approach is intersectional, bringing together literature on both race and gender. In particular she compares the campaigns of Jackson, Chisholm, Obama and Clinton, and she draws upon archival material from campaign speeches, advertising, and newspaper articles, to voter turnout reports, exit polls, and national surveys to discover how race and gender determined the electoral context for the campaigns. In the process, she reveals the differences that exist within and between various racial, ethnic and gender groups in the American political process at the presidential level.
Seeking Higher Ground
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Author : M. Marable
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-23
Seeking Higher Ground written by M. Marable and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-23 with Social Science categories.
Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, Seeking Higher Ground, prominent scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate and private agencies to respond to the plight of the New Orleans black community. Contributing authors include Julianne Malveaux, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ronald Walters, Chester Hartman, Gregory D. Squires, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Alan Stein, and Gene Preuss. This reader is the second volume of the Souls Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University.
Dangerously Divided
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Author : Zoltan Hajnal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-02
Dangerously Divided written by Zoltan Hajnal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with History categories.
Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.
Black Ethnics
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Author : Christina M. Greer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Black Ethnics written by Christina M. Greer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Political Science categories.
The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States. But how will these "new blacks" behave politically in America? Using an original survey of New York City workers and multiple national data sources, Christina M. Greer explores the political significance of ethnicity for new immigrant and native-born blacks. In an age where racial and ethnic identities intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics offers a powerful and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in the post-Civil Rights era.