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Mobilizing Students through Faculty Engagement: Join the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights
By Sabrina Medler As a young voter, and recent Political Science graduate from Stanford University, I understand the kinds of obstacles that impact students’ ability to vote. My goal is […]
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Understanding Contemporary African American Political Engagement through Anger and Empowerment
By Christopher Towler As the 2020 presidential election approaches, African American voters will play a decisive role in determining the election for president and state representatives. The power of Black […]
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Engagement through Experience: Student-Led Voter Registration Efforts
By Chelsea Kaufman Campuses across the United States are engaging in efforts to promote student voter registration as the 2020 election approaches. In my own efforts to promote civic engagement […]
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Sharing Student Research on Voting Rights on Social Media
By Sara Chatfield This past year, I taught a senior capstone seminar focused on voting rights in the United States. Students selected a contemporary voting rights issue to research. Their […]
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You Too Can Do the Top Two: Primary Elections in Washington State
By T.M. Sell Washington state voters will whittle down a busload of candidates for statewide and legislative elections beginning this month, and this process will look different from many other […]
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Unfair Treatment by the Police May Matter Even More Than We Thought When It Comes to African Americans and the Legal System: Lessons from ‘Black and Blue’
In 2018, we published Black and Blue: How African Americans Judge the U.S. Legal System (Oxford University Press). Based on a nationally representative survey of African Americans, this book presents […]
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Racial Liberalism: Connecting Protest and Electoral Politics Today
The year is 2020, not 1968. There has been extensive commentary about the protests over the recent murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police suggesting parallels to the black insurgency […]