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Black Faces, Black Interests The Representation of African Americans in Congress

Carol M. Swain

In this incisive book Carol Swain explores what strategies are most likely to lead to greater representation of black political interests. She studies the constituency relations and roll-call voting of black members of Congress from a variety of districts--historically black, newly black, heterogene...

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

It was Swain's first book and won three national prizes. It was cited by the Supreme Court and was the book that Claudine Gay plagiarized and used as a straw man for her own research.

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It was my first book. It's the one that won three national prizes, was cited by the Supreme Court. It's the book that Claudine Gay plagiarized and used as a straw man for her own research.

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It was Swain's first book and won three national prizes. It was cited by the Supreme Court and was the book that Claudine Gay plagiarized and used as a straw man for her own research.

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It was my first book. It's the one that won three national prizes, was cited by the Supreme Court. It's the book that Claudine Gay plagiarized and used as a straw man for her own research.

It was her dissertation where she got her PhD that started her career was framed around my work, her early articles.

Morning Wire

The book was cited as the source from which Harvard President Claudine Gay lifted several passages; it had won three national prizes and was considered seminal in minority representation research.

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And the book that she lifted a couple of passages from, Black Faces, Black Interests, the Representation of African Americans in Congress, was a book that won three national prizes, including the high...

— Episode: Anti-Semitism & Plagiarism: Harvard’s Du...

Episode: Anti-Semitism & Plagiarism: Harvard’s Dual Crisis...

The book was cited as the source from which Harvard President Claudine Gay lifted several passages; it had won three national prizes and was considered seminal in minority representation research.

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And the book that she lifted a couple of passages from, Black Faces, Black Interests, the Representation of African Americans in Congress, was a book that won three national prizes, including the highest prize a political scientist can win. It was cited by many lower court decisions and the U.S. Supreme Court. And it was considered the seminal work in the area of minority representation and representation in Congress.

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