Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach - Hardcover
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Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach - Hardcover
$95.76
by Beth Reingold (Author), Kerry L. Haynie (Author), Kirsten Widner (Author)
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. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference?
Race, Gender, and Political Representation 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. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, "single-axis" approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. 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, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color.Author Biography
Beth Reingold is Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
Kerry L. Haynie is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Kirsten Widner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee.
Number of Pages: 248
Dimensions: 1 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: October 16, 2020
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