The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Racism, Racialization, Response and Resistance

Introduction: The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race: responding to a moment of crisis with analysis, insight & action

Enid Logan

1. The lessons of the hour: the anti-democratic republican MAGA movement and systemic white racism

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey

2. “They’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats”: xenophobia and group threat as a path to the White House

Charles A. Gallagher

3. “I think it’s a very nasty question”: Trumpian anti-Black racism and the limits of traditional journalistic standards

Chad Rhym and Laura Garbes

4. From Barack Obama to Donald Trump: understanding the arc of twenty-first century presidential elections through the lens of white racial selfhood, white racial rhetoric, and racialised emotions

Enid Logan

5. Beyond puzzlement: rethinking Latino conservatives’ politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the Trump era

Roger S. Cadena Jr.

6. From Kamala Harris to Vivek Ramaswamy: the rising and complex prominence of Indian Americans in US electoral politics

Sara Sadhwani

7. How Christian nationalism co-opts Black Americans for republicans: the case of abortion in the 2024 presidential election

Samuel L. Perry and Darci K. Schmidgall

8. The affective politics of whiteness: mobilizing white women on the left before (and after) the 2024 U.S. Election

Jessie Daniels

9. “It’s like a disconnection” – political skepticism among poor and working-class Black and Latine people

Daniel Laurison, Rachel Broun, Kelly Diaz, Claudia Alegre, Lydia Orr, Ankit Rastogi and Elizabeth Zack

10. Not a “sorority party”: black sororities in defense of themselves and Kamala Harris

Aisha A. Upton Azzam

11. A house still divided: the 2024 election and the racial politics of congress

James Jones

12. Beyond the book club: white antiracist organizing before and after the 2024 election

Chandra Russo

Biography

Enid Logan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, USA.  Her primary lines of research are on race and U.S. presidential elections, contemporary black identity construction, and the racialization of indigeneity.