Resisting the Color Line: Social Movements in the U.S. Racialized Polity
Friday, September 4, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition — Boston, MA | Register here
In-person | Roundtable
Participants:
- (Chair) Dara Z. Strolovitch, Yale Univerisity
- (Discussant) Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago
Session Description:
Race structures the U.S. political system. Racial formations shape lawmaking, policy implementation, and institutional configurations. To the extent that social movements are players in the game of democracy, they move within a lopsided board structured by a myriad of inequalities. Indeed, race-class subjugated communities writ large are often exposed not to the U.S. vision of Marshallian, liberal citizenship, but rather to a “second-face” characterized by institutions meant to police, surveil, and punish them. How do social movements navigate this panorama to create political change? What obstacles do they face? And how do our theories of both racial politics and social movements change when we center collective action led by non-whites? This panel seeks to map out an emerging research panorama through the research of four junior scholars working at the intersection of carceral politics, REP (race and ethnic politics), and social movements.
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