The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
by Richard Alba
Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American⨠Politics
by Zoltan L. Hajnal
The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals
by Christopher T. Stout
University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp.
In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white people would no longer constitute a majority in the United States. In the decades since, the idea that growing diversity will bring about a âmajority-minorityâ America in the near future has become a widespread belief across the ideological spectrum, propelled by periodic Census updates, like a report that 2013 marked the first year that more nonwhite babies had been born in the United States than white ones.
Prof. Christopher Stout: The Political Importance of Talking About Race
February 6, 2021
Not long ago, politicians did not talk about racial issues in their campaigns. Now, there is a very real chance that Joe Biden would not have been elected president if he hadn’t talked about those very issues.
Dr. Christopher Stout, an associate professor of political science at Oregon State University, has written two books related to this topic, with his pioneering research about how race intersects with politics on the campaign trail.
Research Background and
Stout did not always picture himself researching this specific area.
“I think it’s kind of by chance, really,” Stout said. “I’ve always been interested in politics and political science.”