Black faces in the mirror
Subtitle: African Americans and their representatives in the U.S. Congress
By: Katherine Tate.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
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
Genres: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.