ABSTRACT

First published in 2000. This edited collection reviews the developments in theoretical understanding of minority political incorporation. The chapters focus on minority groups throughout the US: Three Decades of Changing Minority Group Opportunities - Richard A. Keiser * Electoral Arrangements and Minority Political Incorporation - Richard L. Engstrom * Life After Districts - Amy B. Bridges & Katherine Underwood * The Dynamo of Urban Growth: Immigration, Naturalization, and the Restructuring of Urban Politics - Louis DeSipio * Can Cities be Elastic and Democratic too? - Arnold P. Fleischmann * Taken In or Just Taken? Political Incorporation of African-Americans in Cities - Rufus Browning,, Dale Rodgers Marshall, & David Tabb * White Backlash, Black Power and Shades of Gray -Richard A. Keiser * Latino Descriptive and Policy Representation in the Midwest: Do 'Traditional' Models Apply? - Thomas Longoria, Jr. * On Asian-American political incorporative prospects - James S. Lai * Gay and Lesbian Incorporation into Four Urban Regimes in Upstate New York - Donald B. Rosenthal * A Long and Uncertain Path: Looking Ahead to the 21st Century - Katherine Underwood

chapter |18 pages

The Changing Structure of Minority Group Political Opportunities

Looking Ahead to the Twenty-First Century

chapter |25 pages

Life after Districts

Amy Bridges and Katherine Underwood

chapter |32 pages

The Dynamo of Urban Growth

Immigration, Naturalization, and the Restructuring of Urban Politics 1

chapter |26 pages

Taken In or Just Taken?

Political Incorporation of African Americans in Cities

chapter |21 pages

Analyzing Urban Regime Change

Black Power, White Backlash, and Shades of Gray 1

chapter |23 pages

Context, Identity, and Incorporation

Are Latinos in the Midwest Different?

chapter |20 pages

A Long and Uncertain Path

Looking Ahead to the Twenty-first Century