This paper analyzes how the right in the United States has utilized the politics of race to erode popular support for social rights and public provision. Work began on this project just before President Barack Obama's election; if anything, the fervent conservative opposition to his moderate...

In this essay, we attempt to move beyond the Kinder and Sanders (1996) conceptualization and measurement of racial resentment by focusing more on “resentment.” We address some critical issues with the measurement and current conceptualization of racial resentment, and then ask and answer...

Few transformations have been as important in American political history as the incorporation of African Americans into the Democratic Party coalition over the course of the 1930s-60s and the embrace of racial conservatism on the part of many Republicans. This paper, which is part of a broader...

We consider the relationship between xenophobia and nationalism in Russia, by examining multi-level determinants of xenophobia and considering how those factors speak to existing models of nationalism. We begin with a discussion of the theoretical relationship between xenophobia and nationalism,...

There has been a wider acknowledgement in recent political scholarship as to the political dimensions of cultural production even as the North American political climate increasingly erodes the capacity of artists to function effectively. Forever it seems the arts must justify themselves as...

Anointed in both 2000 and 2004 as a “battleground state” (and indeed ultimately awarding only single-digit wins to Republicans in both years), Arkansas made national headlines in 2008 by rejecting the nationwide winner, Democrat Barak Obama, by a full 20 points. We examine the role of racism...

In all the research on state-level variation in welfare policy, one thing is clear: race, ethnicity, and representation matter. In this paper, we argue that gender matters as well. Our primary research question is whether the election and incorporation of women into state legislatures has any...

The role of racial prejudice in driving white racial policy opposition has been the subject of a prolonged debate among researchers of American race relations. To a very considerable extent, this debate hinges on an ongoing dispute over the nature and measurement of racial prejudice. Contention...

In this essay, I attempt to resuscitate agency within race formation through the articulation of a political ontology of race. Presently, discussions of the ontology of race are dominated by two approaches that downplay agency. Biological ontology suggests that each discrete race must have its...

Skin color is an explicit racial cue. Although there is strong evidence linking darker skin complexion to the activation of racial stereotypes and adverse societal outcomes, little is known about the extent to which this effect is in play during political campaigns. If white voters make use of...