Twists Of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions And Minority Representation In The Us House Of Representatives - 9780190250928

Members of Congress from racial minority groups often find themselves in a unique predicament: they represent constituencies that are more economically disadvantaged than those of their white colleagues, and they themselves experience marginalization during the process of policy formulation on Capitol Hill. In Twists of Fate, Vanessa C. Tyson illuminates the ways in which House representatives from racial minority groups have worked together, through anunderstanding of their linked political fates, to advocate successfully for equality and social justice (ed.).

• | Author: Vanessa C. Tyson
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 209 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 0190250925
• | ISBN-13: 9780190250928