The US Congress is a racialized governing institution that plays an important role structuring the racial hierarchy in the nation. Despite Congress’s influence, there is little theoretical and empirical research on its racialized structure – that is, how it operates and the racial processes...

The conference chairs call for papers examining “The Politics of Rights,” including how “rights are defined, contested, contracted or expanded, enshrined into law, and rolled back.” In keeping with this theme we propose to present a paper that investigates how racial resentments...

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...

The limited research on public support for voter identification (ID) laws suggests that informational cues can shape opinions about the topic. We test whether two forms of cues — framing and racial imagery — affect support for voter ID laws, both individually and in conjunction with one...