Black Faces in the Mirror : : African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress /

Black Faces in the Mirror : : African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress / / Katherine Tate.

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 relationshi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Tate, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • I . Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Representation
  • II. Black Members of Congress
  • Chapter 2. Black Members of Congress
  • Chapter 3. The Elections of Blacks to Congress
  • III. Representing Black Interests
  • Chapter 4. Legislative Styles and Voting Records
  • Chapter 5. Symbols and Substance
  • IV. The View from Black Constituents
  • Chapter 6. Blacks' Evaluations of House Members: Does Race Matter?
  • Chapter 7. Descriptive Representation and Black Political Empowerment
  • Chapter 8. Descriptive Representation and Trust in Government
  • V. Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. The Future of Black Faces in the U.S. Congress
  • Appendix A. The 1996 National Black Election Study
  • Appendix B. List of Black Members of the U.S. Congress
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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