Campaigning While Black : : Black Candidates, White Majorities, and the Quest for Political Office / /

Campaigning While Black : : Black Candidates, White Majorities, and the Quest for Political Office / / / Matthew Tokeshi.

Even today, Black politicians rarely hold the most powerful elected offices one step below the presidency: governor and U.S. senator. While about 11 percent of the electorate is Black, only 3 percent of senators and 2 percent of governors are Black. Only ten Black Americans have been elected to thes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Tokeshi, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 35 B&w charts and graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. WHY ARE BLACK GOVERNORS AND U.S. SENATORS SO RARE? RACIAL BIAS AGAINST BLACK CHALLENGERS, 2000- 2020
  • 2. THE RACIALIZATION OF BLACK CANDIDATES
  • 3. THE RESPONSE OF BLACK CANDIDATES
  • 4. THE DEVAL PATRICK AND HAROLD FORD JR. CAMPAIGNS OF 2006
  • 5. THE 2013 CORY BOOKER AND 2014 ANTHONY BROWN CAMPAIGNS
  • 6. WHEN BLACK WOMEN RUN: THE 2018 STACEY ABRAMS AND 2020 KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGNS
  • 7. THE BOOKER EXPERIMENT
  • 8. THE CRIMINAL PARDON EXPERIMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Index

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