Review: Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach, by Beith Reingold, Kerry L. Haynie, and Kirsten Widner Available to Purchase

Undergraduate and graduate courses need to adopt the winner of the 2021 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Best Book Award, Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach. The book is an important contribution to the last twenty years of scholarship on race and gender in the field of political science. This book is critical for classroom adoption because students with high school educations can still insist that race and gender don’t matter. This book provides an overview of multiple forms of race–gender policymaking among Democratic and Republican lawmakers in a wide variety of state houses across two decades. By introducing a multidimensional concept of race–gender leadership, the authors were able to test theories of intersectional representation to gain insight into the distinctive contributions of women of color to crafting bills related to group interests such as health and education (116). Importantly, there’s growing evidence that the presence...