The Congressional Black Caucus

Black leaders shift from the of protest to the of the ballot box, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is often viewed as a visible and concrete manifestation of black political power. For that reason alone, the CBC (composed of the seventeen black members of the House of Representatives1) should receive careful scrutiny it is one direction of black political strategy and presumably, as more blacks are elected to political office, it is a harbinger of things to come. If, as many believe, the CBC is the most powerful contemporary black political organization, analysis will reveal basic constraints and opportunities involved in reliance on electoral politics and the political process to achieve black ends. Ironically just at the time when a theoretical framework is most needed to elucidate

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• Focus and Style Representational Roles of Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucus Members

  Open Access•James B Johnson, Philip E Secret•Journal of Black Studies•1996

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• Congressional Racial Solidarity

  Open Access•Roxanne L Gile, Charles E Jones•Journal of Black Studies•1995

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• Black Elected Officials and Public Policy

  Open Access•Michael B Preston•Policy Studies Journal•1978

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• The Roots of the Rainbow Coalition

  Paulette Pierce•The Black Scholar•1988

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• Everyday Life in the Modern World

  Henri Lefebvre, Sacha Rabinovitch et al.•Everyday Life in the Modern World•2017

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• The Congressional Black Caucus

  Marguerite Ross Barnett•Proceedings of the Academy of…•1975

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