More than brown: how race and skin tone matter for Latino group identity How can we more accurately measure racial identity among Latinos? Does Latinos’ self-described race and/or skin color influence feelings of closeness with racial rather than ethnic groups? This art...

📢How can we better capture the nuances of Latino racial identity? Clealand & Gutierrez investigate this, challenging a homogenous view of racial identity and finding differing racial identities between mixed & medium skin tone Latinos, and Black Latinos.

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The politics of oppression and power: applying the work of Dr. Mae Coates King to the criminal legal system Black political and socioeconomic life diverges from other racial groups in America because of white supremacy. Black political scientists contributed to the study of white supremacy by centering B...

📢What is the role of the criminal legal system in perpetuating racial oppression? Middlemass explores this in her article, drawing a framework for racial oppression from the work of Dr. Mae King, applying it to the criminal legal system.

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“Seeing around corners”: what oral histories of the founders of Black politics teach us about political science’s reluctance to prioritize research on Black people Through oral histories shared by early-generation scholars, we celebrate the narratives of Black political scientists. Such narratives illustrate the reluctance of the discipline to prioritize eith...

📢What can we learn from the oral histories of Black politics? McClerking & Block Jr. explore this in their article, analyzing these stories and what they can tell us about political science's relationship with research on Black people.

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Dear political science: tools for the study of black (life and) politics With the invitation to reflect upon the founders of the Black politics subfield, this article considers the work of Cathy Cohen. I particularly focus on her essay “Deviance as Resistance: A New Res...

📢How can "deviant" Black politics destabilize dominant views within political science, and better analyze blackness and politics? Davies explores this in her article, analyzing Black scholarship and encouraging methodological pluralism in Black politics.

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Flowers for the founders: the guest editors’ introduction Published in Politics, Groups, and Identities (Vol. 13, No. 5, 2025)

📢Interested in understanding racial politics from the perspective of Black political scholarship? Take a look at the PGI special issue "FLOWERS FOR THE FOUNDERS: A CONTEMPORARY REVISITING OF CANONICAL BLACK POLITICS SCHOLARSHIP?"

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Antisemitism, Israel, and political ideology on the American college campus Since October 7, 2023, antisemitism on American campuses has become a contested political issue. Scholars of antisemitism argue that the relationship between antisemitism and political ideology fol...

📢 Antisemitism, Israel, & campus politics, what is the relationship? Wright, Hecht, & Saxe find that anti-Jewish sentiments are more common on the far-right; anti-Israel sentiments some consider antisemitic are more common on the left.

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Volunteer for whom? Local and direct preferences for civic engagement with women's organizations What drives engagement with civic organizations addressing women's issues? While past work suggests that individuals' preferences regarding civic engagement are influenced by geographic proximity, ...

📢 What drives civic engagement with women’s organizations? Jackson & Torres-Beltran show that individuals favor local, hands-on organizations, regardless of gender, feminist identity, or prior volunteer experience.

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After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....

One of the most read articles published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social in the last year:

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement, by Jason Pierceson

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Black lives matter and say her name: how intersectional solidarity strengthens movements for social justice What happens when social movements try to address internal inequalities that define marginalized identity groups? Do internal efforts to redress the marginalization of particular subgroups within a...

#10 — How Intersectional Solidarity Strengthens Movements

Kelly-Thompson et al. examine how the #SayHerName campaign affected #BlackLivesMatter, showing that intersectional organizing strengthened online solidarity rather than fragmenting the movement.

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Promoting LGBTI rights in foreign policy: strategies for action while avoiding backlash Contestation surrounding LGBTI rights in foreign policy remains widespread. Despite these challenges, an increasing number of governments, including major donor states, have integrated LGBTI rights...

#9 — Promoting LGBTI Rights in Foreign Policy: Strategies for Action While Avoiding Backlash

Ayoub & Rainer examine how governments promote LGBTI rights abroad, outlining when visibility advances rights and when quieter diplomacy helps avoid backlash.

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Examining the determinants of opposition to birthright citizenship Since the end of racial prerequisite cases in 1952, anyone born on US soil has been granted birthright citizenship. But, prominent political figures have recently questioned whether children born t...

#8 — Examining the Determinants of Opposition to Birthright Citizenship

Lajevardi & Merolla show that opposition to birthright citizenship is more prevalent among Whites and closely tied to racial attitudes, views of undocumented immigrants, and Trump support.

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From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

#7 — From Strategy to Sentiment: Partisan News and White Racial Consciousness

Smith, Clark & Lella show that Fox News narratives about Critical Race Theory (CRT) heighten perceptions of anti-white discrimination and opposition to related education policies.

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Inclusive state policies, stronger identities: the impact of policy on Latino immigrant linked fate Do immigration policies affect Latino immigrants' sense of linked fate? Hostile immigration laws perceived to target Latinos in the United States have been found to influence behavioral and psychol...

#6 — Inclusive State Policies, Stronger Identities: The Impact of Policy on Latino Immigrant Linked Fate

Trummel shows that inclusive state immigration policies strengthen Latino immigrants’ linked fate with other immigrants, but not with co-ethnic Latinos.

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The influence of candidate traits on vice presidential nominee preference The selection of Kamala Harris as a vice presidential running mate was historic: she was the first vice presidential nominee selected who was not White and only the third woman. But does a vice pre...

#5 — The Influence of Candidate Traits on Vice Presidential Nominee Preference

Schroeder & Campos show that voter preferences over vice presidential nominees are shaped more by strategic and ideological considerations than by shared race or gender.

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Escaping the multicultural trap: strategic litigation and the decriminalization of same-sex relations in Mauritius Mauritius is widely praised for policies that have minimized tensions between ethno-religious groups. Other types of groups, however, are excluded from that sociopolitical ordering of society. In p...

#4 — Strategic Litigation and the Decriminalization of Same-Sex Relations in Mauritius

Brown examines how LGBTQI+ activists used strategic litigation to challenge anti-sodomy laws, revealing both limits and possibilities of rights claims.

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Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...

#2 — Cooperating through Distrust: Seeking Remedies to State and Community Violence

Zimmerman shows how situational trust enables cooperation with distrusted institutions to address violence, while shaping class-based inclusion and exclusion.

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Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US Political partisanship is typically understood as a social identity. Partisans vary in the strength of their identity – some are deeply attached to their partisanship, while for others it is not hi...

#1 — Victimhood, Partisan Identities, and Media Consumption in the US

Mayer & Parks examine how narratives of victimization intensify partisan identity, linking perceptions of group victimhood to media consumption and social media use.

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👋 Hello readers, and happy 2026!

Before we move on to what’s new, here’s a quick recap of 2025: our Top-10 most read articles 🧵

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....

📢 How are conservative judges reshaping LGBTQ rights after Bostock? Pierceson finds that while Bostock v. Clayton County expanded protections for transgender plaintiffs, some conservative judges now use Dobbs and past rulings to narrow those rights.

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Latinx for Trump: disaggregating support among voters in 2020 This article analyzes predictors of support for Donald Trump among Latinx in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election to uncover variation within the broader category of Latinx voters. We analyze 2020 C...

📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices.

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Who protects transgender rights in congress? An analysis of gender identity inclusive policy entrepreneurship The quality and strength of a democracy can be measured by how minority rights are protected against the interests of the majority. In the US, the rights of transgender people, a numerically small,...

📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.

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Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior Variations in perceptions of and attitudes towards justice animate how different people decide to engage in politics. In the US, political attitudes typically vary across salient identity markers s...

✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Civil initiatives or hate marches? Unpacking anti-gender mobilizations and civic resistance in Türkiye Since the mid-2000s, anti-gender mobilizations have gained global visibility, presenting themselves as civic defenders of traditional family values and national sovereignty against the perceived th...

📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action.

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Representation and the legislative enterprise: an expanded view of staff representation Abundant research highlights the importance of electoral representation for women and racial minorities in democratic governments. This literature focuses primarily on individuals elected to office...

📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker.

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Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos Are Filipino Americans closer to Asian Americans or Latinos, politically? We argue that due to Spanish and American colonialism, this is an open question. We test hypotheses regarding Filipino Amer...

🔍︎Take a look at this recent article, “Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Danielle Casarez Lemi and Gabriel R. Sanchez 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education.

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Why Focusing On Culture Fuels Resistance to Racial Justice Recent research finds that how people are asked about racial inequality leads to different answers

✅What shapes Americans’ understanding of the racial consequences of policy choices? Check out this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post that introduces research in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social, on how the way people are asked about racial inequality can lead to very different answers: medium.com/3streams/why...

Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations? We test the possibility that social contact through interracial marriage impacts racial attitudes. We assume that interracial couples experience intergroup contact that is meaningfully different fr...

👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
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