ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains that women of color are not necessarily doubly disadvantaged and there is much work to be done in understanding the experiences of minority women across groups and time. It also focuses on the politics of minority women as a way to provide a fuller and richer depiction of these women's politics. This chapter divides into four categories: mass behavior and attitudes, voter evaluations of minority women candidates, the mass media's coverage of minority women, and the road to office for women of color. From national surveys, elite interviews, historical analysis, experiments, content analysis, and policy case studies, the diverse data sources provide poignant and substantive findings and theoretically significant conclusions about the role of minority women in US politics. The chapter explores the experiences of women in leadership roles.
