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Black and Brown Voices in Committee Deliberations on Civil Rights
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Abstract
- This chapter examines the individual efforts of legislators to advocate for minority interests via the protection of civil rights. Specifically, it takes a closer look at how much time members of Congress spent in committee deliberations supporting minority interests during the 103rd Congress (1993–1995), years of Democratic control of both chambers of Congress; the 104th Congress (1995–1997), years when a Republican Congress opposed a Democratic president; and the 107th Congress (2001–2003), years of continued Republican control of Congress, now under a Republican president. It is argued that strategic group uplift produces systematic racial and ethnic differences between minority legislators and white legislators: black and minority legislators actively promote and defend minority interests through strategic participation in hearings.
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5cd6fac70dcbda89b00418664f72be42