black politics

Hoodies on the Floor: Exploring Black Members' Legislative Response to Police Brutality
Congress – despite ever increasing numbers of black members – does not care about police brutality.
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Hoodies on the Floor: Exploring Black Members' Legislative Response to Police Brutality
The Paradox of Ambition
The rise of Ivy League-educated black politicians is the only potentially meaningful change in the nature of black representatives since 1947. However, the policy consequences of that change are ambiguous.
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The Paradox of Ambition
Innovation, Inevitability, and Credibility: Tracking the Origins of Black Civil Rights Issues
This paper uses historical black newspapers to provide context for the development of four major civil rights issues – lynching, …
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An Examination of Black Representation and the Legacy of the Voting Rights Act
Fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there are still many questions about one of its signature achievements, …
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Participation for What? A Policy-Motivated Approach to Political Activism
Normatively and intuitively, we conceive of political participation as an integral component of democratic policymaking. However, …
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