Intersectionality and Politics: Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States

Intersectionality and Politics is a groundbreaking collection of contemporary research and essays that applies the concept of intersectionality specifically to descriptive and substantive representation by African-American, Latino/a, and Asian-American elected officials. This unique compilation looks at numerous states and focuses on multiple racial/ethnic groups to demonstrate the importance of this theory for understanding the political leadership of people of color, in general, and women, in particular.