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Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Department of Political Science

University of Chicago Press
(2003-10-17)
304 pages
ISBN: 0-226-24130-0
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University of Rochester River Campus Library Copy

    Going Home

    Black Representatives and Their Constituencies

    Synopsis

    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 meant–and means today–to black voters and the politicians they have elected into 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, they shared crucial organizational and symbolic connections to their constituents.

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