Hope and Independence: Blacks' Response to Electoral and Party Politics: Blacks' Response to Electoral and Party Politics

by Patricia Gurin, James S. Jackson, Shirley Hatchett

Over the past fifteen years, a New Black Politics has swept black candidates into office and registered black voters in numbers unimaginable since the days of Reconstruction. Based on interviews with a representative sample of nearly 1,000 voting-age black Americans, Hope and Independence explores blacks' attitudes toward electoral and party politics and toward Jesse Jackson's first presidential bid. Viewed in the light of black political history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871543745
• ISBN13: 9780871543745
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.