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Voting hopes or fears? : white voters, Black candidates & racial politics in America /
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 ex...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 experimental studies, this book provides fresh 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429415258 9781429415255 1280528478 9781280528477 9780195101614 0195101618 9786610528479 6610528470 019535639X 9780195356397 |