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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dawson, Michael C

Titel

Behind the Mule : Race and Class in African-American Politics

Ort / Verlag

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2020]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics. Why have African Americans remained so united in most of their political attitudes? To account for this phenomenon, Dawson develops a new theory of group interests that emphasizes perceptions of "linked fates" and black economic subordination