1st Edition
Women of Color Political Elites in the U.S. Intersectional Political Experiences
1. The Community Matters: Finding the Source of the Radical Imagination of Black Women’s Political Ambition
Pearl K. Ford Dowe
2. The 2018 Congressional Midterms, Symbolic Empowerment, and Ayanna Pressley’s Mobilizing Effect: A Case Study for Future Analysis of Historic Firsts
Evelyn M. Simien
3. Legislating as Your Full Self: Queer Women of Color in US State Legislatures
Hanna K. Brant and Jordan Butcher
4. Her Honor: Black Women Judges’ Experiences with Disrespect and Recusal Requests in the American Judiciary
Taneisha N. Means
5. The Black Women of the US Congress: Learning from Descriptive Data
Nadia E. Brown, Christopher J. Clark and Anna Mitchell Mahoney
6. Galvanizing Grief: Black Maternal Politics, Respectability, and the Pursuit of Elected Office
Aidan Smith
7. "Better Too Much Than Not Enough": The Nomination of Women of Color to the Federal Bench
Laura Moyer, Allison P. Harris and Rorie Spill Solberg
8. Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Maneesh Arora and Sara Sadhwani
9. The Future of Black Feminism and Black Women Political Elites: A Reflexive Interview with Duchess Harris
India S. Lenear
10. A Conversation with Mary Hawkesworth on Intersectionality, Political Science, and Challenging the Discipline
Catherine N. Wineinger
11. Moving beyond Niceness: Reading bell hooks into the Radical Potential for the Discipline
Alex Moffett-Bateau and Jenn M. Jackson
Biography
Nadia E. Brown is Professor of Government and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, USA. She is co-author of Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites.
Christopher J. Clark is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is author of Gaining Voice: The Causes and Consequences of Black Representation in the American States.
Anna Mitchell Mahoney is Administrative Associate Professor of Women's Political Leadership at Newcomb Institute at Tulane University, USA. She is the author of Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses.
