Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Candidates & Racial Politics in America - Couverture souple

Reeves, Keith

 
9780195101621: Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Candidates & Racial Politics in America

Synopsis

Thirty years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, whites remain resistant to the election of blacks to public office. This widespread resistance, Keith Reeves illustrates, can be explained in large part by election campaign appeals to whites' racial fears and sentiments. Through innovative experimental srudies, Voting Hopes or Fears? provides fresh and startling empirical evidence that the issue of race still pervades the consciousness of American society and prevents blacks from winning elections in districts where whites comprise a majority of the electorate.

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith Reeves is Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvrad University. A former Henry Luce Scholar, he graduated from Swarthmore College, attened Oxford University, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He was an expert witness in Hays v. Louisiana III, a Federal court challenge to the creation of Louisiana's 4th majority-black Congressional District.

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9780195101614: Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Candidates and Racial Politics in America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195101618 ISBN 13 :  9780195101614
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1997
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