ABSTRACT
In a “post” era—after the civil rights, women's and welfare rights movements—how do those often considered as “other” because of their gender and/or race/ethnicity practice politics? How open is the American democratic process to those operating at the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity? As you read through this volume you are rewarded with a number of articles that offer rich and complex analyses on the ontology of difference and its meaning and relationship to democratic practices in the United States. The various articles broaden our conversation about political representation and our understanding of democratic theory. They accomplish this by examining the politics of groups that too often are invisible in our more traditional explorations of political representation, opinion or participation.
