Repression and deportation has been and continues to be a fact of life for Mexican and Latino migrants in the United States. In 2006 illegal migrants throughout the United States rose up to challenge the processes of dehumanization they face on a daily basis. This movement organized from local...

There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the relationship between a defendant's background characteristics and the voting behavior of African American and Latino judges in the courtroom. Many of these studies, however, tend to analyze this relationship by focusing on criminal cases...

For the most part, out-groups achieve political incorporation by techniques of agitation, protest, and legal challenges. In other words, out-groups generally have to fight hard against the political and institutional opposition of in-groups to gain equal access to the polls. But out-group...

Political allegiance has been shown to influence how much people trust and have confidence in their government as well as its legitimacy, but little has been done to examine the intersection of this concept with race. As the demographics of America continue to change, the importance of how race...

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 the 1970s the United States government initiated the 'War on Drugs'. Soon after, states enacted legislation imposing harsh sentences for drug offenders. The public quickly voiced objections to the impacts of the sentencing laws. States changed their laws, claiming the changes were a response...