This paper investigates the influence of national attachments among Black and White Americans. Research on national attachments (e.g., patriotism, nationalism) has gained wide currency among political behavior scholars, as it couples strong theoretical mechanisms with well-behaved measures to...

Scholars have long noted the importance of contextual and group effects in mobilizing voters to the polls. This is especially important for minority groups. However, a paucity of scholarly work has investigated the motivation behind cross-racial mobilization. As the electorate continues to...

In 2008, 2.2% of Americans identified with two or more racial categories. Indeed, assertions of non-traditional identities evoking a mixed race (or multiracial) background are more prevalent in society today, particularly among younger generations. The rise of multiracial identification is...

What explains variations in European public opinion about discrimination? The answer is important for national-level integration strategies, for understanding the challenge facing the European Union's Racial Equality Directive (which was passed in 2000 and transposed into national law over the...

There is a broad literature on middleman minorities, beginning in the 1940s to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe (Becker,1940; Rinder, 1958). In the 1960s scholars began to systematically apply the middleman minority theory to colonial societies...

Despite its distance from both the current and past U.S.-Mexican border and its relatively short history as a destination for Latin American immigrants, North Carolina has become the state with the fastest growing Latino population in the country. Given this demographic boom, I set out to learn...

Does context alter the impact on urban vote choice of racial attitudes and other individual-level variables? It is well understood that voting in urban mayoral elections is strongly influenced by both racial group identity and racial attitudes about group conflict or cooperation. Also, there is...