This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American
press (Atlanta Daily World) to that found in Atlanta's mainstream press (Atlanta Journal …

In The Race Card (2001), Tali Mendelberg claims that once the racial content of an implicit
racial appeal has been exposed the appeal loses its ability to mobilize voters. In this paper …

While partisanship in American politics has been historically tied to racial identity and racial
attitudes, most studies of Latino partisanship do not incorporate these factors into …

Using data from the 2011 Multi-State Survey on Race and Politics (Parker 2011), I ask if
African American1 opinion toward undocumented immigration mirrors African American …

Feelings of commonality are central to the formation of multiracial political coalitions. Despite
a fairly voluminous literature on where these feelings come from, however, relatively little is …

This paper investigates the question of whether and how race and race relations affect state
legislators' support for restrictive immigration policy. Focusing on the nine new immigration …

To be a full member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial
background, or the same religion as most citizens? What do people of different statuses …

This dissertation seeks to further understand the relationship between nativism, the opinion
that the American way of life needs to be protected against foreign influence, and the …

Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In
this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages …

Simmering conflicts between Blacks and Latinos over jobs, housing, political power, and
educational opportunities have attracted scholarly and popular attention for years (McClain …