This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States in varying levels of office and non-elected positions. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.

Nadia E. Brown is Professor of Government and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, USA. She is co-author of Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites.

Christopher J. Clark is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is author of Gaining Voice: The Causes and Consequences of Black Representation in the American States.

Anna Mitchell Mahoney is Administrative Associate Professor of Women's Political Leadership at Newcomb Institute at Tulane University, USA. She is the author of Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women's Caucuses.

1. The Community Matters: Finding the Source of the Radical Imagination of Black Women's Political Ambition 2. The 2018 Congressional Midterms, Symbolic Empowerment, and Ayanna Pressley's Mobilizing Effect: A Case Study for Future Analysis of Historic Firsts 3. Legislating as Your Full Self: Queer Women of Color in US State Legislatures 4. Her Honor: Black Women Judges' Experiences with Disrespect and Recusal Requests in the American Judiciary 5. The Black Women of the US Congress: Learning from Descriptive Data 6. Galvanizing Grief: Black Maternal Politics, Respectability, and the Pursuit of Elected Office 7. "Better Too Much Than Not Enough": The Nomination of Women of Color to the Federal Bench 8. Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris 9. The Future of Black Feminism and Black Women Political Elites: A Reflexive Interview with Duchess Harris 10. A Conversation with Mary Hawkesworth on Intersectionality, Political Science, and Challenging the Discipline 11. Moving beyond Niceness: Reading bell hooks into the Radical Potential for the Discipline