Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality

Banks, Antoine J.; White, Ismail K.; McKenzie, Brian D.

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“…Recent scholarship identifies how group-based emotions shape the political engagement and decision making of African Americans, revealing distinctions in the translation of emotions such as anger, enthusiasm and shame to participation in costly political actions (Banks, White, & McKenzie, 2018;Burge, 2014;Collins & Block, 2018;Phoenix & Arora, 2018;Thompson, 2017). Building on this work, I present findings from experimental and survey data that reveal racial differences in the mobilizing effects of hope on participation.…”

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Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation

Phoenix

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Drawing upon theories of group based emotion, group based efficacy and appraisal, I propose a model of racial emotion regulation to explain variations in how Black and White Americans respond emotionally and behaviorally to policy opportunity cues. I test the major claims of this model with data from an original experiment and national survey. Findings from the studies indicate that expressions of hope carry a strong and consistent mobilizing effect on the political participation of African Americans, while producing null effects on White participation. I discuss the implications of this model for our understanding of the potential of hope to shape appraisals and perceptions of efficacy among socially marginalized groups, opening up a distinct pathway through which they can be mobilized for political engagement.

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Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation

Phoenix

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…Other contemporary empirical research suggests that those whose interaction with the state is punitive and coercive are more likely to espouse political strategies and outlooks that include ideas about community control, self-determination, and autonomy. For example, one study finds that blacks who are angry about racial injustice are more likely to support community nationalism, donate to indigenous black organizations, and engage in protest actions (Banks, White, and McKenzie 2018). Other studies find that racial disillusionment and intense perceptions of racism and mistreatment are associated with black nationalist views (Block 2011; Davis and Brown 2002).…”

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Withdrawing and Drawing In: Political Discourse in Policed Communities

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Piston

2020

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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A growing body of literature examines how direct or vicarious contact with forms of state surveillance affects political behavior and perceptions of government legitimacy. We develop a new method, Portals, to collect conversations between black residents from highly policed areas in five different U.S. cities between 2016 and 2018. While existing research emphasizes how interactions with the carceral state are alienating and demobilizing, our analysis of these conversations identifies productive ways in which citizens respond to oppressive encounters with police. The political discourses used by Portals participants, we argue, are centered on a logic of “collective autonomy”—given police ignorance, abuses of police authority, and the little political power that residents of highly policed communities have to demand change, many conclude that power is best achieved by strategically distancing from state institutions in the short term while building community power in the long term. Crucially, articulations of collective autonomy transcend the ideological positions of participants and track closely with an ideological tradition in black politics that persists across generations and contexts of state oppression.

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“…Collective action demands time, energy, information, income and other resources. Groups with low-resource capacity are typically unable and unwilling to incur collective action costs unless they have intense issue preferences (Banks, White and McKenzie 2018;Klandermans 1984). In contrast, groups with high-resource capacity can engage in collective action despite their issue salience (Klandermans 1984).…”

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“…These costs are more consequential for groups with fewer resources (Banks, White and McKenzie 2018;Klandermans 1984). Opportunity costs and economic hardships are significant for groups with inflexible work schedules, scarce income or fewer participation options.…”

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Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups

Gause

2020

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Collective action, particularly by low-resource groups, presents an opportunity for re-election-minded legislators to learn about (and subsequently represent) their constituents’ salient interests. In fact, legislators are more likely to support the preferences of protesters than non-protesters. Legislators are also more likely to support the preferences of racial and ethnic minority, low-income and grassroots protesting groups than they are to represent better-resourced protesters. This argument emerges from a formal theory and is empirically tested using legislative roll-call vote data from the 102nd through the 104th US Congresses and data on civil rights, minority issues and civil liberties issue area protests reported in the New York Times. This counterintuitive result enhances understanding of inequalities in representation. It demonstrates that under certain conditions, political representation favors disadvantaged populations.

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Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation

Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation

Withdrawing and Drawing In: Political Discourse in Policed Communities

Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups

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