Women of Color Political Elites in the U.S.: Intersectional Political Experiences

ISBN-13: 9781032442396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 150 str.

Brown, Nadia E.

Opis

This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States in varying levels of office and non-elected positions. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.

Spis treści

1. The Community Matters: Finding the Source of the Radical Imagination of Black Women’s Political Ambition  2. The 2018 Congressional Midterms, Symbolic Empowerment, and Ayanna Pressley’s Mobilizing Effect: A Case Study for Future Analysis of Historic Firsts  3. Legislating as Your Full Self: Queer Women of Color in US State Legislatures  4. Her Honor: Black Women Judges’ Experiences with Disrespect and Recusal Requests in the American Judiciary  5. The Black Women of the US Congress: Learning from Descriptive Data  6. Galvanizing Grief: Black Maternal Politics, Respectability, and the Pursuit of Elected Office  7. “Better Too Much Than Not Enough”: The Nomination of Women of Color to the Federal Bench  8. Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris  9. The Future of Black Feminism and Black Women Political Elites: A Reflexive Interview with Duchess Harris  10. A Conversation with Mary Hawkesworth on Intersectionality, Political Science, and Challenging the Discipline  11. Moving beyond Niceness: Reading bell hooks into the Radical Potential for the Discipline