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Katherine Tate

Professor, Political Science
School of Social Sciences

PH.D., University of Michigan

Phone: (949) 824-1869
Fax: (949) 824-8762
Email: ktate@uci.edu

University of California
4177 Social Sciences Plaza Building A
Department of Political Science
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
American politics, African American politics, and public opinion
   
Research
Abstract
Professor Tate's research focuses on the politics of race and African Americans. She teaches courses in these fields as well as on the study of American public opinion and public policy.
   
Publications What's Going On? Critical Transformations of Black Public Opinion. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, in press.
   
  Black Faces in the Mirror, African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2003. (Winner of 2004 V.O. Key Jr. book award; co-winner of the 2004 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics APSA Section's book award; co-winner of 2005 NCOBPS' outstanding book award; named an "Outstanding academic title" by Choice Magazine in 2003).
   
  From Protest to Politics: The New Black Voters in American Elections Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. (Co-winner of 1994 V.O. Key Jr. book award; co-winner of NCOPBS' 1995 outstanding book award).
   
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Last updated 11/10/2009