Racial Stasis
The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
List of Figures
Preface
Not All Change Is Progress: An Introduction
Part I. Lay of the Land
1. Nature of the Game: The Racial Stasis Hypothesis
2. Is Race Special?
3. New Attitudes or Old Measures?
Part II. Countervailing Forces
4. Millennials on Racism
5. Racialized Policy Preferences
Part III. A Holistic Measure
6. New Attitudes, New Measures
7. The Structure, Nature, and Role of Twenty-First-Century Racial Attitudes
8. The FIRE This Time
Conclusion: Is Resuscitation Possible?
Appendix A. Everything You Need to Know about the APC Intrinsic Estimator
Appendix B. A Brief Note on Factor Analysis
Appendix C. Interview Schedule and Respondent Demographics
Appendix D. Supplemental APC-IE Tables
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Appendix B. A Brief Note on Factor Analysis
Appendix C. Interview Schedule and Respondent Demographics
Appendix D. Supplemental APC-IE Tables
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Review Quotes
Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University
“The time is right for Racial Stasis. The optimism placed on White millennials for their alleged capacity to be free from racial in-group/out-group thinking is unrealistic, and we are due for a reevaluation of our reliance on racial resentment as our central measure of racial attitudes. DeSante and Smith provide a valuable addition to the literature that will surely spark debate about how we conceive of and measure racial attitudes and how we assess the role they play in shaping political preferences today.”
Vesla Weaver, Johns Hopkins University
“A thorough and powerful mapping of the ways the millennial generation is thinking about and engaging with racial ideas in a qualitatively different way. DeSante and Smith not only show scholars how ill-suited old measures of racial attitudes are to the racial grammar of new generations, they develop and test a new measure for our era. Original, bold, convincing, and timely, Racial Stasis is an important book.”
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