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Contested Transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Contested Transformation

This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.

Latino Politics en Ciencia Pol’tica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Latino Politics en Ciencia Pol’tica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

More than 53 million Latinos now constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in the United States, and the nationOCOs political future may well be shaped by LatinosOCO continuing political incorporation. In the 2012 election, Latinos proved to be a critical voting bloc in both Presidential and Congressional races; this demographic will only become more important in future American elections. Using new evidence from the largest-ever scientific survey addressed exclusively to Latino/Hispanic respondents, a Latino Politics a en Ciencia Pol tica aexplores political diversity within the Latino community, considering how intra-community differences influence political ...

The Upswing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

The Upswing

What's past is prologue -- Economics : the rise and fall of equality -- Politics : from tribalism to comity and back again -- Society : between isolation and solidarity -- Culture : individualism vs. community -- Race and the American "we" -- Gender and the American "we" -- The arc of the twentieth century -- Drift and mastery.

Double Trouble
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Double Trouble

"J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. This unique work opens a window on the oft-shuttered inner dynamics of black politics. In his highly original treatment of the last thirty years in post-civil rights progressive social change, Thompson offers a powerful argument that the best way to broaden democracy in to practice it internally."--BOOK JACKET.

We Have No Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

We Have No Leaders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.

Gendered Pluralism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Gendered Pluralism

Focused on structural and political intersectionalities, Gendered Pluralism takes a broader approach to understanding the constellation of factors that drive gender and racial differences on an array of public policy issues. Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate examine a broader set of actors absent the contextual factors that may drive them to compromise their opinions. Their study examines the ways in which (1) men and women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (2) whites and racial-ethnic minorities differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (3) women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (4) African-American men and women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; and (5) African-American women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences.

The New Black Politician
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

The New Black Politician

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-07
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Looks at the 2002 Newark mayoral race between Cory Booker and the more established black incumbent Sharpe James, which articulated how moderate black politicians are challenging civil rights veterans for power.

The Politics of Blackness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

The Politics of Blackness

This book examines Afro-Brazilian individual and group identity and political behavior, and develops a theory of racial spatiality of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation.

Ralph Bunche
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Ralph Bunche

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Henry's biography shines as both the recovered story of a classic American and as a case study in the racial politics of public service.

Black Lives Matter in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 557

Black Lives Matter in Latin America

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