Format:
Online-Ressource (318 p.)
ISBN:
9780226241302
Content:
Thirty years ago there were nine African Americans in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today there are four times that number. In Going Home, the dean of congressional studies, Richard F. Fenno, explores what representation has meant-and means today-to black voters and to the politicians they have elected to office.Fenno follows the careers of four black representatives-Louis Stokes, Barbara Jordan, Chaka Fattah, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones-from their home districts to the halls of the Capitol. He finds that while these politicians had different visions of how they should represent their distr
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. African American House Members and Representation; 2. Louis Stokes: 1970-1976; 3. Barbara Jordan: 1972-1973; 4. Chaka Fattah: 1996-2001; 5. Louis Stokes: Postscript, 1998; 6. Stephanie Tubbs Jones: 2000-2002; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226241326
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226241302
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Going Home : Black Representatives and Their Constituents
Language:
English
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