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Intersectionality: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality  

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1995. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” In Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement. Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas (eds.). New York: The New Press. Pp. 357-383. 

Gutiérrez y Muhs, G., Niemann, Y.F., González, C.G. and Harris, A.P., 2012. Presumed incompetent: The intersections of race and class for women in academia. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

Gay, Claudine and Katherine Tate. 1998. “Doubly Bound: The Impact of Gender and Race on the Politics of Black Women.” Political Psychology 19: 169-84.

Cohen, Cathy J. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2003. Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T.: Everyday Talk and Black Political Talk. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Jordan-Zachery, J. S. (2007). “Am I a black woman or a woman who is black? A few thoughts on the meaning of intersectionality.” Politics & Gender, 3 (2): 254-263. 

Strolovitch, D. Z., Wong, J. S., & Proctor, A. 2017. "A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality." Politics, Groups, and Identities 5(2), 353–363.

Identity 

Carmichael, S., Hamilton, C.V. and Ture, K., 1992. Black power: The politics of liberation in America. Vintage.

Dawson, M.C., 1995. Behind the mule: Race and class in African-American politics. Princeton University Press.

X, Malcolm. 1965. Malcolm X: The Last Speeches. Pathfinder Press. “Not Just an American Problem but a World Problem.” 151-181.

Herrnson, P.S., Rouse, S.M. and Taylor, J.A., 2020. "The Impact of Electoral Arrangements on Minority Representation: District Magnitude and the Election of African American State Legislators." Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 19(1), 64-78.

 McKenzie, B.D. and Rouse, S.M., 2013. "Shades of faith: Religious foundations of political attitudes among African Americans, Latinos, and Whites." American Journal of Political Science, 57(1), 218-235.

Swers, M.L. and Rouse, S.M., 2011. "Descriptive Representation: Understanding the Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests." In The oxford handbook of the American Congress.

Rouse, Stella M., and Ashley D. Ross. 2018. The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences of America's Most Diverse Generation. University of Michigan Press.

Yashar, D. J. 2015. "Does Race Matter in Latin America: How Racial and Ethnic Identities Shape the Region's Politics." Foreign Affairs 94: 33-40.

Barreto, Matt A., Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, Edward D. Vargas and Janelle Wong. 2018. “Best practices in collecting online data with Asian, Black, Latino, and White respondents: evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 6(1), 171-180.

Post-Colonial Legacies  

Hanchard, M.G., 1998. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988. Princeton University Press.

Bhambra, G. K. et al. July 2020. "Why is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism?" Foreign Policy.

Dixon, K. and Johnson III, O.A. eds., 2018. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America. Routledge.

J.P. Singh and Richard von Weizsäcker. 2020. Race, Racism, and International Relations. Duck of Minerva.

Social Movements 

Lee, Taeku. 2002. Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gillion, D.Q., 2020. The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Group-Based Inequality 

Banks, Antoine J., Ismail K. White and Brian D. McKenzie. 2019. “Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality.” Political Behavior 41: 917-943.

Banks, Antoine J. and Heather K. Hicks. 2019. “The Effectiveness of a Racialized Counter-Strategy.” American Journal of Political Science 63(2): 305-322.

Banks, Antoine J. and Heather K. Hicks. 2016. “Fear and Implicit Racism: Whites’ Support for Voter ID Laws.” Political Psychology 37(5): 641-658.

Banks, Antoine J. and Nicholas A. Valentino. 2012. “Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes.” American Journal of Political Science 56: 286-297.

Johnson, M., 2020. "Electoral Discrimination: The Relationship between Skin Color and Vote Buying in Latin America." World Politics, 72(1), 80-120.

Kinder, D.R., Sanders, L.M. and Sanders, L.M., 1996. Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals. University of Chicago Press.

Wong, J.S., 2019. "Race, Evangelicals and Immigration." In The Forum 17 (3): 403-419. 

Immigration

Ross, A.D. and Rouse, S.M., 2015. "Economic uncertainty, job threat, and the resiliency of the millennial generation's attitudes toward immigration." Social Science Quarterly, 96(5), 1363-1379.

Gay, Claudine. 2006. “Seeing Difference: The Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Toward Latinos.” American Journal of Political Science 50 (4).

Race and Education

Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary). Continuum.

Tatum, B. D. (1997). Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? and other conversations about race (First). BasicBooks.

Decolonizing the Syllabus

Decolonizing the Academy Reading List: Democracy in Africa.

How do black people channel their anger about racial injustice? Here’s what we found  Antoine J. Banks, Ismail K. White, & Brian D. McKenzie

How Much Is America Changing?  Cites Antoine Banks & Lilliana Mason

Hidden Brain: New Research Ties Unconscious Biases, Fear And Voter ID Laws  Interview with Antoine Banks

“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud  Cites Antoine Banks

All roads lead to Tulsa Isabella Alcañiz (in Spanish)

The politics of race are shifting, and politicians are struggling to keep pace  Cites Lilliana Mason

Both the Democrats and Republicans were once white majority parties. Now race divides them  Lilliana Mason

In praise of polarization How identity politics changed the Democratic Party — for the better  Cites Lilliana Mason

Strange Fruit  Ernesto Calvo (in Spanish)

Generation Z, Immigration, and the Fall Election  Stella M. Rouse & Melissa Deckman

Republicans Think They Can Court Hispanic Votes With Their Position on Abortion, but Data Tells a Different Story  Stella M. Rouse & Janelle Wong

How Hispanics really feel about Trump  Stella M. Rouse & Shibley Telhami

New Poll: Despite Partisan Divides on Immigration, Americans Oppose Family Separation  Stella M. Rouse & Shibley Telhami

Republicans’ hard-line stance on immigration may alienate millennials for years  Stella M. Rouse

Latinos Need a Voice. Where Is It?  Stella M. Rouse

Pandemic Politics: Why the military should not intervene in domestic protests  Autumn Perkey

New data finds Black and Hispanic Americans more likely to take precautions against coronavirus  Stella M. Rouse 

The SAT and ACT are Unfair Barriers to Black, Latino, and many Asian American groups Janelle Wong

This is why white evangelicals still support Donald Trump Janelle Wong

70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action, here is why misconceptions persist exist Cites Janelle Wong