TY - BOOK ID - 66238091 TI - Race, gender, and political representation : toward a more intersectional approach AU - Reingold, Beth AU - Widner, Kirsten AU - Haynie, Kerry Lee PY - 2021 SN - 0197502202 0197502180 0197502199 PB - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Minorities KW - Political participation KW - Representative government and representation KW - Political activity KW - Political activity. KW - Minority voters UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66238091 AB - It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. This text takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this work demonstrates what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. ER -