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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeves, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
  • Our Intractable Problem
  • Race--A Political Lightning Rod
  • Voting Discrimination against Black Candidates
  • The Empirical Evidence
  • The Print Press--Making an Issue of Race
  • The Persistence of Racial Prejudice in the Electorate
  • The Consequences of Cueing Subtle Appeals to Race
  • Affirmative Action and Equal Political Opportunity Revisited
  • In Pursuit of a Level Playing Field
  • The Content Analysis Study
  • The 1992 Biracial Election Campaign Study
  • The Voting Rights Act.