Representation of Minority Groups in the U.S. Implications for the Twenty-First Century

by Menifield, Charles E.; Jones, Charles E.; McCurdy, Karen M.; Santos, Adolfo; Huerta, Juan Carlos; Takeda, Okiyoshi; Peterson, Geoff; Duncan, Robert; Ellcessor, Patrick; Leighley, Jan E.; Julian, Frank; King-Meadows, Tyson; Schaller, Thomas F.; Gray, Regin

• ISBN13: 9781572921641
• ISBN10: 1572921641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-04
• Publisher: Austin & Winfield Publishers

Summary

Representation of Minority Groups in the U.S. aims to assess the changes that have occurred with respect to the descriptive and substantive representation of women, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians in the U.S. political system from 1965 to the present. Each institutionally oriented chapter provides the reader with detailed demographic and behavioral facts concerning minority groups in the political system. How these groups are represented is assessed through discussions of partisanship, ideology, policy impact, role orientations, leadership, committee assignment, bill co-sponsorship, and voting behavior.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Minority Representation in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction	1	(12)
Charles E. Menifield
Part I Minority Representation in Congress
African American Representation in Congress, Then and Now	13	(24)
Charles E. Menifield
Charles E. Jones
The Institutional Roles of Women Serving in Congress: 1960-2000	37	(20)
Karen M. McCurdy
An Analysis of Descriptive and Substantive Latino Representation in Congress	57	(20)
Adolfo Santos
Juan Carlos Huerta
The Representation of Asian Americans in the U.S. Political System	77	(34)
Okiyoshi Takeda
American Indian Representation in the 20th and 21st Centuries	111	(16)
Geoff Peterson
Robert Duncan
Voters, Non-voters and Minority Representation	127	(22)
Patrick Ellcessor
Jan E. Leighley
The Effects of Redistricting on the Underrepresented	149	(14)
Charles E. Menifield
Frank Julian
Part II Minority Representation in State and Local Governments
Black State Legislators: A Case Study of North Carolina and Maryland	163	(26)
Tyson King-Meadows
Thomas F. Schaller
A Wave of Change: Women in State and Local Governments	189	(34)
Charles E. Menifield
Regina C. Gray
Hispanic Representation in State and Local Governments	223	(24)
Charles E. Menifield
New Black Women in the Old White Confederacy: An Analyses of Occupational Status in State and Local Government	247	(20)
Patricia Jernigan
Mfanya Tryman
Representative Government and Affirmative Action in Mississippi: An Oxymoron in the Making?	267	(22)
Mfanya Tryman
Legislative Collaboration and Descriptive Representation	289	(24)
Kathleen Bratton
Representation of Minorities in the Next Century	313
Charles E. Menifield