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The Malleable Nature of Race - A Case of 'Some Other Race'

Nordlund, Carrie - 2010

Racial identification has for many been a stable, unchanging category. Yet we see a growth in the "some other race … are different levels of attachment to race. Furthermore, I argue that those who have weaker attachment to a specific … racial category are more likely than those with a strong attachment to check "some other race". In a country presided by a …

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Race and the Mexican Question

Durazo, Marco - 2010

The objective of this project is to investigate how anti-Mexican racial discourse is different from anti-black racial language. The literature detailing color-blind racism is linked by the consensus that anti-black sentiments have evolved from being explicit and crude to coded and covert. This...

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Decoding Racial Messages : Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model on the Immigration Issue

Masuoka, Natalie - 2010

Racial appeals have long been recognized as potent campaign tactics that mobilize white voters to the polls. Yet most studies that test the viability of racial appeals use blacks as the target group. However, in an increasingly diversifying society in which political elites now target a variety...

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Race, Religion, and Discrimination : South Asian Immigrants and Challenges of Panethnic Mobilization

Mishra, Sangay - 2010

This paper analyzes the extent of panethnic South Asian identity formation and mobilization among South Asian immigrants in the United States. Based on the analysis of quantitative data from PNAAPS, 2001 and 60 in-depth interviews conducted with both leaders and community members of Indian,...

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Identity Politics and Judges : Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Voting Outcomes on State Supreme Courts

Madhavi, McCall - 2010

The importance of racial and ethnic minorities on the bench and their influence on decision making has garnered some scholarly attention. While the normative arguments arguing for a racially diverse judiciary abound, the empirical literature on the topic at the state level is more limited and...

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