Black Faces in the Mirror

By Katherine Tate

Subjects: USA Congress, Parlementaires, Politics and government, African Americans, Attitudes, African american legislators, Abgeordneter, Opinion publique, Politique et gouvernement, Legislators, USA, Parlementaires noirs américains, Statistiques, Droit de vote, Public opinion, African American legislators, Public opinion, united states, African americans, politics and government, Noirs américains, Statistics

Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.