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

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

Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African...
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Author: Katherine Tate
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Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress by Tate, Katherine

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

CHF 86.82
Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress by Tate, Katherine

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

CHF 86.82
Author: Katherine Tate
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Katherine Tate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/25/2004
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.20w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780691117867

About the Author
Katherine Tate is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of From Protest to Politics and coauthor of African Americans and the American Political System (Fourth Edition).
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