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Black Faces in the Mirror

African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress

By: Katherine Tate

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Black Faces in the Mirror

African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress

By: Katherine Tate

Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relationship. The first half of the book examines whether black members of the U.S. House legislate and represent their constituents differently than white members do. Representation is broadly conceptualized to include not only legislators' roll call voting behavior and bill sponsorship, but also the symbolic acts in which they engage. The second half looks at the issue of representation from the perspective of ordinary African Americans based on a landmark national survey. Tate's findings are mixed. But, in the main, legislators' race does shape how they represent their constituents and how constituents evaluate them. African Americans view black representatives more positively than they do white representatives, even those who belong to their own political party. Black legislators, however, are just as likely as white representatives to sponsor and gain passage of bills in the House. Tate also concludes that black House members are more liberal as a group than are their black constituents, but that there is considerable divergence in the quality and type of representation they provide. The findings reported here will generate controversy in the fields of politics, law, and race, particularly as debate commences over renewing the Voting Rights Act, which is set to expire in 2007.

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Princeton University Press

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0691186359

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9780691186351

Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

By: Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene

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Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

By: Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women--their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her "the world's most famous feature writer" and "one of the world's most successful reporters," while her critics affixed the pejorative labels "stunt girl" and "sob sister." This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.

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217

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McFarland

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1476622663

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9781476622668

Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

By: Katherine Blundell

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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

By: Katherine Blundell

Black holes are a source of wide fascination. In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Blundell addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how they are characterised and discovered, to what happens if you get too close to one. Explaining how black holes formand grow across cosmic time, as well as how many there are in the Universe, she also considers how black holes interact with matter - by stealing material that belongs to other stars, and how black holes give rise to quasars and other spectacular, yet exotic phenomena in outer space.

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121

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Oxford University Press

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0199602662

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9780199602667

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

By: Katherine Marshall Woods

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Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

By: Katherine Marshall Woods

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in Black films over the last five decades. In this pioneering book, Katherine Marshall Woods looks at Black cinema from a psychological and psychoanalytic perspective. Focusing on a decade at a time, she charts the development of representation and creative output from the 1980s to the present day. She deftly moves from analyzing depictions of poverty and triumphs to highlighting the importance of cinema in shaping cultural identity while considering racial prejudice and discrimination. Adopting theoretical viewpoints from Freud to bell hooks, Marshall Woods examines the damaging effect on cultural psychology as a result of stereotypical racial tropes, and expertly demonstrates the healing that can be found when one sees oneself represented in an honest light in popular art. From Do The Right Thing, The Color Purple and Malcolm X to contemporary classics like 12 Years a Slave, Black Panther and American Fiction, this book is an essential read for those interested in the intersection between Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, and African American cultural identity.

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163

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Taylor & Francis

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1040156657

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9781040156650

Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

American Images of the Vietnam War

By: Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California

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Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

American Images of the Vietnam War

By: Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California

Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (i.e. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195349628

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9780195349627

From Protest to Politics

The New Black Voters in American Elections

By: Katherine Tate

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From Protest to Politics

The New Black Voters in American Elections

By: Katherine Tate

The struggle for civil rights among black Americans has moved into the voting booth. How such a shift came about--and what it means--is revealed in this timely reflection on black presidential politics in recent years. Since 1984, largely as a result of Jesse Jackson's presidential bid, blacks have been galvanized politically. Drawing on a substantial national survey of black voters, Katherine Tate shows how this process manifested itself at the polls in 1984 and 1988. In an analysis of the black presidential vote by region, income, age, and gender, she is able to identify unique aspects of the black experience as they shape political behavior, and to answer long-standing questions about that behavior. How, for instance, does the rise of conservatism among blacks influence their voting patterns? Is class more powerful than race in determining voting? And what is the value of the notion of a black political party? In the 1990s, Tate suggests, black organizations will continue to stress civil rights over economic development for one clear, compelling reason: Republican resistance to addressing black needs. In this, and in the friction engendered by affirmative action, she finds an explanation for the slackening of black voting. Tate does not, however, see blacks abandoning the political game. Instead, she predicts their continued search for leaders who prefer the ballot box to other kinds of protest, and for men and women who can deliver political programs of racial equality. Unique in its focus on the black electorate, this study illuminates a little understood and tremendously significant aspect of American politics. It will benefit those who wish to understand better the subtle interplay of race and politics, at the voting booth and beyond.

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276

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Harvard University Press

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0674325400

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9780674325401

Black and Tan Coonhounds

By: Anna Katherine Nicholas

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Black and Tan Coonhounds

By: Anna Katherine Nicholas

This book, illustrated entirely with full-color photos and drawings, presents sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about selecting and caring for a Black and Tan Coonhound. It concentrates on providing readers with the information they need and want -- all given in an interesting and easy-to-read style. Following is just a partial listing of the book's contents: History of the Black and Tan Coonhound -- Description of the Black and Tan Coonhound -- Selecting Your Dog -- The New Family Member -- Feeding Requirements -- Accommodations -- Housebreaking Your Puppy -- Behavior Modification -- Health Care -- Breeding -- Index

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TFH Publications

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0866227741

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9780866227742

Essays from Contemporary Culture

By: Katherine Anne Ackley

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Essays from Contemporary Culture

By: Katherine Anne Ackley

A reader for introductory composition courses, this text is designed to encourage students to make informed opinions or observations about topics that matter to them in a variety of forums, such as expressive writing, classroom discussion and formal essays. The readings come from various sources including newspapers, magazines and books, and have almost all been published in the 1990s.

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460

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0155053027

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9780155053021

Book's by Katherine Black

Black Faces in the Mirror

Black Faces in the Mirror

Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

From Protest to Politics

From Protest to Politics

Black and Tan Coonhounds

Black and Tan Coonhounds

Essays from Contemporary Culture

Essays from Contemporary Culture

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