Racial Order, Racialized Responses: Interminority Politics in a Diverse Nation

Illuminates people of color's sensitivity to their social station and how it drives their political responses to racial diversity.

Efrén O. Pérez (Author), E. Enya Kuo (Author)

9781108958530, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 November 2021

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.138 kg

America's racial sands are quickly shifting, with parallel growth in theories to explain how varied groups respond, politically, to demographic changes. This Element develops a unified framework to predict when, why, and how racial groups react defensively toward others. America's racial groups can be arrayed along two dimensions: how American and how superior are they considered? This Element claims that location along these axes motivates political reactions to outgroups. Using original survey data and experiments, this Element reveals the acute sensitivity that people of color have to their social station and how it animates political responses to racial diversity.

Introduction
1. Racial Subordination and Interminority Politics
2. Not More American Than Me: Black Reactions to Latino Growth
3. Robbing Us of Our Shine: Asian American Reactions to Latino Growth
4. What Have We Learned and What Do We Do with These Lessons?
Appendix: Racial Order, Racialized Responses
References.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP], Psychology [JM], Sociology [JHB]