Articles by Politics of Color

AUTHORS: Rita Kaur Dhamoon (University of Victoria) ABSTRACT: In settler societies like Canada, United States, and Australia, the bourgeoning discourse that frames colonial violence against Indigenous people as genocide has been controversial, specifically because there is much debate about the [...]

AUTHORS: Bernard L. Fraga (Indiana University) and Julie Lee Merest (Northwestern University) ABSTRACT: The following study investigates the causal impact of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) language minority provisions, which mandate multilingual election assistance if certain population thresholds are [...]

AUTHORS: Eric Gonzalez Juenke (Michigan State University) and Paru Shah (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) ABSTRACT: Do voters in white districts systematically obstruct minority representation? Despite a great deal of public and scholarly attention, this question remains largely unresolved. We [...]

AUTHORS: Claudine Gay, Jennifer Hochschild and Ariel White (Harvard University) ABSTRACT: For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans’ unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent [...]

AUTHORS: Eric L. McDaniel (University of Texas at Austin), Irfan Nooruddin (Georgetown University) and Allyson F. Shortle (University of Oklahoma) ABSTRACT: The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq created a sharp increase in [...]

AUTHORS: Scott H. Huffman (Winthrop University), H. Gibbs Knotts (College of Charleston) and Seth C. McKee (Texas Tech University) ABSTRACT: History has shown that voters tend to support candidates of their own race. This reality has proven particularly challenging for black candidates who have [...]