Race, gender, and political representation : toward a more intersectional approach / Beth Reingold, Kerry L. Haynie, and Kirsten Widner.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197502204 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Women -- Political activity -- United States
| Minorities -- Political activity -- United States | Political participation -- United States | Representative government and representation -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197502174DDC classification: 320.0820973 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. This text takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this work demonstrates what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. This text takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this work demonstrates what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal.
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