The main goal of the task force, under the leadership of APSA President Rodney Hero, was to investigate the relationship between race and class in producing material, political, and social inequalities in the nations of the Americas. The task force also examined how the political systems in these countries work to foment and/or ameliorate inequalities that track with ethnic and racial identities and socioeconomic status.
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Task Force Chapters
The complete task force is available above. For ease of access, each individual chapter is included separately below.
The Double Bind: The Politics of Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas
Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Northwestern University
Foreword
Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley
1 The Mexican Color Hierarchy: How Race and Skin Tone Still Define Life Chances 200 Years after Independence
Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame
Melina Altamirano, Duke University
2 Black Blues: The Persistence of Racialized Economic Inequality in Black Communities
Michael C. Dawson, University of Chicago
Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington
3 Asians in the Americas
Jane Junn, University of Southern California
Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley
4 Emergence of an Organized Politics of Race in Latin America
Mala Htun, University of New Mexico
5 New Data, New Knowledge, New Politics: Race, Color, and Class Inequality in Latin America
Mara Loveman, University of California, Berkeley
6 Beyond Race or Class: Entangled Inequalities in Latin America
Tianna S. Paschel, University of California, Berkeley
7 Learning from Ferguson: Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class
Joe Soss, University of Minnesota
Vesla Weaver, Yale University
8 The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada
Keith Banting, Queen’s University
Debra Thompson, Northwestern University
9 Inequality in Black and White: Public Opinion and Inequality in the United States
Vincent Hutchings, University of Michigan
10 Experiencing Inequality but Not Seeing Class: An Examination of Latino Political Attitudes
Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania
Sophia Jordán Wallace, University of Washington
11 Race and Class Inequality in Local Politics
Zoltan L. Hajnal, University of California, San Diego
Jessica L. Trounstine, University of California, Merced
12 Indigenous Voters and the Rise of the Left in Latin America
Raúl Madrid, University of Texas at Austin
Members of the Task Force
Rodney E. Hero, University of California, Berkeley, 2015 APSA President
Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Northwestern University
Melina Altamirano, Duke University
Keith Banting, Queen’s University
Michael C. Dawson, University of Chicago
Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington
Paul Frymer, Princeton University
Zoltan L. Hajnal, University of California, San Diego
Mala Htun, University of New Mexico
Vincent Hutchings, University of Michigan
Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania
Jane Junn, University of Southern California
Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Mara Loveman, University of California, Berkeley
Raúl Madrid, University of Texas at Austin
Tianna S. Paschel, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley
Joe Soss, University of Minnesota
Debra Thompson, Northwestern University
Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame
Jessica L. Trounstine, University of California, Merced
Sophia Jordán Wallace, University of Washington
Dorian Warren, Roosevelt Institute
Vesla Weaver, Yale University