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Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress

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How does Congress represent the interests of African Americans? Must blacks be represented by blacks to be properly heard? How do members of Congress respond to the needs of blacks in their districts, and what do congressional voting records reveal? Carol Swain examines the problems of representing the interests of African Americans by studying 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 ...

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Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress 2006, University Press of America, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780761834076

Enlarged edition

Trade paperback

Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress 1998, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674076167

Revised edition

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Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress 1993, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674076150

Hardcover