2021.05: Researching Race in Political Science

Authors, books, and readings referenced by Classroom guest Justin Zimmerman

Authors and readings referenced in the episode

• Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America by Paul Frymer (2010)

• "Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities" by Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver in Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 20 (2017): 565-591.

• "Situational Trust: How Disadvantaged Mothers Reconceive Legal Cynicism" by Monica C. Bell in Law & Society Review, Volume 50, Issue 2 (2016): 314-347.

• "Tocqueville as Critical Race Theorist: Whiteness as Property, Interest Convergence, and the Limits of Jacksonian Democracy" by Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. in Political Research Quarterly, Vol 62, Issue 4 (2009): 639-652.

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

• Michael Dawson, University of Chicago

• Charles Mills

• WEB DuBois

• Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago

  • Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010).

  • The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

  • Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto (New York University Press, 1997).

• Jenn M. Jackson, Syracuse University

• Traci Burch, Northwestern University

• Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University

• Sally Nuamah, Northwestern University