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Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents
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Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Richard F. Fenno


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Thirty years ago there were nine African Americans in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today there are four times that number. In Going Home, the dean of congressional studies, Richard F. Fenno, explores what representation has meant--and means today--to black voters and to the politicians they have elected to office.

Fenno follows the careers of four black representatives--Louis Stokes, Barbara Jordan, Chaka Fattah, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones--from their home districts to the halls of the Capitol. He finds that while these politicians had different visions of how they should represent their districts (in part based on their individual preferences, and in part based on the history of black politics in America), they shared crucial organizational and symbolic connections to their constituents. These connections, which draw on a sense of "linked fates," are ones that only black representatives can provide to black constituents.

His detailed portraits and incisive analyses will be important for anyone interested in the workings of Congress or in black politics.

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  • Title Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents
  • Author Richard F. Fenno
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2003-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226241302 / 0226241300
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.24 x 0.89 in (23.93 x 15.85 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African American legislators, African Americans - Politics and government
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002007704
  • Dewey Decimal Code 328.730

About the author

Richard F. Fenno is a Distinguished University Professor and William J. Kenan Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He is the author of a dozen books, including the classic Home Style: House Members in Their Districts and, most recently, Congress at the Grassroots: Representational Change in the South, 1970-1998.
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