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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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Racial Self Identification and Latino Public Opinion

Stokes-Brown, Atiya - 2010

The changing demography of the United States has generated a great deal of discussion about the role of Latinos in American politics. This changing demography has also generated scholarly interest in the ways in which Latinos become socially and politically incorporated. Recognizing extreme...

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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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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" category that leads to questions as to what is causing this increase. I begin by taking up this question by arguing that there are different levels of attachment to race....

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Atlacatl's Rebirth : State Hegemony and the Politics of Racial Identity in Post-War El Salvador, 1992-2009

Moreno, Raul - 2010

Despite an increased scholarly interest in Salvadoran politics, economy, and society since the resolution of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992, very little is known about the historical production of race and ethnicity, as well as these categories' relation to the state and the exercise of power...

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Race and the Mexican Question

Durazo, Marco - 2010

language. The literature detailing color-blind racism is linked by the consensus that anti-black sentiments have evolved from … of color-blind racism - but characterized by the reoccurring dehumanization of people of Mexican descent. The reasons for …

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State Drug Sentencing Policy and its Impact on Public Opinion : Variations in Support for Police and the Criminal Courts by Race and Gender

Frost, Ann C. - 2010

In the 1970s and 1980s the United States government initiated what we call the 'War on Drugs.' Soon after, state governments began to enact new legislation imposing mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders, and eliminating judicial discretion in imposing sentences. It was not long,...

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Charting the Intersectional History of Racial Change Efforts by U.S. Evangelicals

Wadsworth, Nancy - 2010

In the last decade, American evangelicals have come into the political spotlight in some surprising ways: as racial reconcilers, and advocates of new, deeply multiracial faith-based communities. This racial change sub-movement within American evangelicalism crosses divides that have been...

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The Color of Citizenship : Race, Modernity and Latin American Political Thought

von Vacano, Diego - 2010

This paper presents a theory of a 'synthetic paradigm' of race drawn from the history of Latin American political thought. It examines the construction of racial identity in relation to citizenship, drawing on an assay of Las Casas, Bolivar, Lanz, and Vasconcelos. I seek to show how this...

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Henri De Boulainvilliers and the Interpretation of Racism

Nichols, Robert - 2010

of modern racism. This paper seeks to resituate Boulainvilliers, not only to demonstrate his importance historically, but … contemporary accounts of racism derived from Foucauldian, Arendtian and liberal traditions. It is argued here that an historically … problematizes theories of racism that continue to take up the question in terms of a failure to properly universalize the category …

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