FOCUS Presents: Group Attitudes Identities & US Politics

On Tuesday, November 24th, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students hosted “Group Attitudes, Identities, & U.S. Politics,” an online panel discussion and Q&A session. The event, which was a part of the FOCUS Speaker Series, featured three experts in American political science and the history of racial appeals in politics: Professors LaFleur Stephens-Dougan of Princeton, Ashley Jardina of Duke University, and Davin Phoenix of the University of California, Irvine.
The three panelists are all recently published authors, and their books each had enormous significance for the topic of conversation. Stephens-Dougan is the author of Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (2020). Jardina published her book White Identity Politics in 2019, and Phoenix’s book, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics came out in 2019 as well.