New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics / Edition 1

by Jane Junn, Kerry L. Haynie

Overview

Foreign migration to the United States is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of all Americans are of non-white and non-European descent. Latinos and Hispanics have recently eclipsed African Americans as the largest minority group in the United States. Between 1990 and 2000, Asians doubled the size of their population to more than 4 percent of Americans. Though immigration has altered the racial and ethnic composition of every state in the nation, surprisingly little is known about the consequences of this new heterogeneity for American politics. This book explores the impact and political consequences of immigration. After considering the organizations that mobilize new citizens to politics, the authors examine the political psychology of group consciousness for political mobilization. Finally, they consider the emerging patterns and choices of new voters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521670142
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/31/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jane Junn is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department and the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. She is the author of Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn (with Richard Niemi; 1998) and Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (with Norman Nie and Ken Stehlik-Barry; 1996), which won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association. Her research interests include political participation and elections, education and democracy, immigration, and racial and ethnic politics.

Kerry L. Haynie is Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He also co-directs Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. He is the author of African American Legislators in the American States (2001), co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics, volumes I and II (2000), and has written numerous articles for political science journals.

Table of Contents

Contributors     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
New Race Politics: The Changing Face of the American Electoral Landscape   Jane Junn   Elizabeth Matto     1
In Whose Interest? Political Parties, Context, and the Incorporation of Immigrants   Kristi Andersen     17
Beyond Black and White: The Experiences and Effects of Economic Status among Racial and Ethnic Minorities   Dennis Chong   Dukhong Kim     39
Activity amid Diversity: Asian American Political Participation   Janelle S. Wong   Pei-te Lien   M. Margaret Conway     70
Get Me to the Polls on Time: Coethnic Mobilization and Latino Turnout   Rodolfo O. de la Garza   Marisa A. Abrajano   Jeronimo Cortina     95
Se Habla Espanol: Ethnic Campaign Strategies and Latino Voting Behavior   Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto   Jennifer L. Merolla     114
Structuring Group Activism: A Macro Model of Black Participation   Fredrick C. Harris   Brian D. McKenzie   Valeria Sinclair-Chapman     130
Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree?   Paula D. McClain   Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto   Monique L. Lyle   Niambi M. Carter   Gerald F.Lackey   Jeffrey D. Grynaviski   Kendra Davenport Cotton   Shayla C. Nunnally   Thomas J. Scotto   J. Alan Kendrick     145
Understanding the New Race Politics: Conclusions and Challenges   Kerry L. Haynie     166
References     175
Index     193

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This volume asks many essential questions as the US moves into the next century...Volumes such as this one are critical foundations upon which the US needs to be addressing these new realities...Recommended." —Choice

"The book, which focuses on the political participation opinion formation of Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans, is a must-read for anyone interested in race and American politics or political participation more broadly...The essays in this book, by raising these issues, have the potential to influence the political responses to these communities, which in turn can affect the cohesion or lack thereof of these minority groups."
Perspectives on Politics, Robin Dale Jacobson, University of Puget Sound

Editorial Reviews

"This volume asks many essential questions as the US moves into the next century...Volumes such as this one are critical foundations upon which the US needs to be addressing these new realities...Recommended." —Choice

"The book, which focuses on the political participation opinion formation of Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans, is a must-read for anyone interested in race and American politics or political participation more broadly...The essays in this book, by raising these issues, have the potential to influence the political responses to these communities, which in turn can affect the cohesion or lack thereof of these minority groups."
Perspectives on Politics, Robin Dale Jacobson, University of Puget Sound

From the Publisher