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Promises for not only policy adjustment but also system changes were evident in Obama's rhetorical strategy even before his official candidacy was announced. Economic downturn, culminating in the financial collapse of September 2008, further prompted the rhetoric of systemic change during the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What best advances the protection of the rights of minorities in democratic societies - participation in politics within the boundary of the society itself, or an appeal to universal values? The first of these options can be intensely political, in the form of identity politics; the other can...
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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...
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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...
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Extant literature on racial attitudes and public policy tends to focus upon white racial attitudes toward African-Americans and how these attitudes mediate public policy. We argue that with our increasingly diverse country it is critical to examine different groups in order to get a...
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This paper utilizes qualitative data from sixteen (16) focus groups conducted with "homogenous" racial groups (four groups each of African Americans, Asians / Pacific Islanders, Latinos, and Whites), to explore the racial attitudes of young people aged 18-24 years in the Los Angeles area,...
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