Black Faces, Black Interests
Auteur: Carol Miller Swain
Nombre de pages: 296 pages
ISBN: 0674076168, 9780674076167
Edition: Harvard University Press
Date de publication: Harvard University Press
Description: In this incisive book Carol Swain explores what strategies are most likely to lead to greater representation of black political interests. She studies the constituency relations and roll-call voting of black members of Congress from a variety of districts--historically black, newly black, heterogeneous, and primarily white--and of white members from districts with either a black majority or a significant black minority. She challenges the proposition that only African Americans can represent black interests effectively, and argues that blacks must form coalitions with white representatives to serve black needs. Swain has updated this edition with a new chapter entitled "Black Congressional Representation since 1992."