Race and Politics

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Gendered Pluralism

By Katherine Tate & Belinda Robnett
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, American Politics
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines the extent to which gender influences the political policy views and attitudes of women

Still a Hollow Hope

State Power and the Second Amendment

By Anthony D Cooling
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Theory, American Politics

Federalism still matters

Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics

By R. Khari Brown, Ronald E Brown, and James S. Jackson
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Religion, African American Studies

How race influences religious engagement in politics

From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination

The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe’s Nationalism

By Alberto Spektorowski & Daphna Elfersy
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Islamic Studies

Is Europe in the midst of an Islamization process? Or is it the other way around?

The Enduring Legacy

Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools

By Mark Edward Ryan
Subjects: Education, Political Science, Race and Politics, Public Policy

The moral failure of American structured inequality in education

Concordance

Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

New Edition, With New Preface and Afterword

By Katherine Tate
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, African American Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Revised, With New Preface and Afterword
As black leaders have turned from political activism to formal politics, they have moved closer to the political center

The Politics of American Jews

By Herbert F. Weisberg
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Race and Politics, Jewish Studies

Uses extensive data to show that everything we think we know about the voting behavior of American Jews is wrong.

The Quality of Divided Democracies

Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and Representation in the New Europe

By Licia Cianetti
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Race and Politics
Series: New Comparative Politics

How democracy functions in ethnically divided societies, and how minorities can gain access to power

Muslims in a Post-9/11 America

A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy

By Rachel M. Gillum
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Islamic Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the vast diversity within Muslim American communities and shows how negative rhetoric toward Muslims makes America less safe

The Prism of Race

The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil

By David Lehmann
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Governance, Latin American Studies

How race quotas—and their public perception—reflect Brazil’s complicated history with racial injustice

Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials

The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions

By James P. Turner
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Law, Legal History, American Studies

A fascinating examination of the Viola Liuzzo trials, with a foreword by Ari Berman

From Inclusion to Influence

Latino Representation in Congress and Latino Political Incorporation in America

By Walter Clark Wilson
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, American Politics, Race and Ethnicity

Identifies the ways in which Latinos in Congress represent their fellow Latinos, thereby promoting democracy in our government

Rival Claims

Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism

By Bethany Ann Lacina
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Race and Politics

Data-driven study of the relationship between ethnoterritorial conflict in India and the government’s centralized power

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Concordance

Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

1st Edition

By Katherine Tate
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, African American Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

As black leaders have turned from political activism to formal politics, they have moved closer to the political center

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court

By Christina Rivers
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, American Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, African American Studies

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus disagree over how best to protect minority voting rights

Ethnic Cues

The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation

By Matt Barreto
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies, Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Does placing a Latino candidate on the ticket mobilize Latino voters?

Mark One or More

Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln

By Tasha Philpot
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, Urban Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Communication, African American Studies, Sociology
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

How political parties use racial issues to manipulate their image and public opinion

Barack Obama's America

How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era

By John White
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Studies, Race and Politics, Political Theory
Series: Contemporary Political and Social Issues

Research and reflections on the American demographic shift that led to the election of President Barack Obama

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Imagining America in 2033

How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush

By Herbert J. Gans
Subjects: Fiction, Political Science, American Politics, Public Policy, Race and Politics

A utopian narrative

America Beyond Black and White

How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide

By Ronald Fernandez
Subjects: American Studies, Political Science, Race and Politics, Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Contemporary Political and Social Issues

An impassioned argument for reassessing America's understanding of race and ethnicity

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