This article reviews the literature on the persistence of racial cues and appeals in American
elections. I focus on three central themes: racial priming, the influence of the Obama …

This chapter reviews the literature on the intersection between prejudice and politics,
focused largely on prejudice and politics in the United States. The first two sections of the …

Scholars and policy makers have intensely debated institutional reforms of the United
Nations (UN) since its creation. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to institutional …

Can political rallies affect the behavior of law enforcement officers toward racial minorities?
Using data from 35 million traffic stops, we show that the probability that a stopped driver is …

Despite a sizable literature on racial priming, scholars have failed to account for the shifting
nature of racial appeals. First, theories of racial priming have not yet been widely applied to …

Two principal movers of American politics appear increasingly to be connected: racism and
guns. The racial content underlying gun rights rhetoric, however, is rarely made explicit …

What are the consequences when politicians make prejudiced statements? Theories about
the suppression of prejudice argue that people are likely to express more prejudice when …

" Political participation is a costly activity with little clear payoff. And yet, millions of
Americans vote, a smaller number donate their time and money to campaigns, and people …

Evidence has emerged demonstrating that whites no longer reject negative, explicit racial
appeals as they had in the past. This seeming reversal of the traditional logic of the …

American politicians frequently evoke race in their messages to the public; at the same time,
politicians often pay a price for racialized rhetoric. We propose that elites continue to use …