| Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Attitudes; African Americans -- Statistics; African American legislators -- Public opinion; Legislators -- United States -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- United States; 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. 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). |