Published Research and Forthcoming Articles
In addition to her book, Race To The Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in Politics, LaFleur has several papers about the role of race in electoral politics.
► Race and Electoral Politics
► Black Politics
► Inequality
RACE AND ELECTORAL POLITICS
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I Get So Emotional: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Anger in American Politics
The prevailing theory on racial priming argues that counterstereotypic images of African Americans neutralize racial resentment. This study challenges...
The Electoral Consequences of Anti-Muslim Prejudice
A growing body of research has documented the development of pervasive anti-Muslim sentiment among White Americans. We build on this research to demonstrate that anti-Muslim attitudes and negative stereotypes of Muslim people have become an enduring and consistent component of White Americans' presidential vote choice beyond any one specific candidate or election. We argue that the racialization of Muslim Americas has increased their salience and significance in both the minds of White Americans and in national political discourse, making attitudes toward Muslims a consistent predictor of Whites’ presidential candidate evaluations in every election since at least 2004. We support this account with empirical evidence from the 2004–2020 American National Election Studies, using measures of group affect and negative stereotypes of Muslim people.
The Persistence of Racial Cues and Appeals in American Elections
The prevailing theory on racial priming argues that counterstereotypic images of African Americans neutralize racial resentment. This study challenges...
BLACK POLITICS
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Are Black State Legislators More Responsive to Emails Associated with NAACP vs. BLM?
We fielded an experiement on a sample of approx. 400 Black state legislators to test whether they would be more responsive to an email that mentioned the...
INEQUALITY
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White Americans' Reactions to Racial Disparities in Covid-19
There is a documented partisan divide in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with Republicans reporting lower rates of...
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