Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

About Dianne PinderhughesLorrie FrasureLouis DeSipioTodd ShawToni-Michelle C. Travis

Todd Shaw has appointments in both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Columbia. He is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. From 2017 to 2021 Shaw was the department chair of political science and later the interim associate dean for diversity equity and inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences. He researches and teaches in the areas of African American politics urban politics and public policy as well as citizen activism and social movements. Louis DeSipio is professor of political science and professor of Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California Irvine (UCI). His research interests include ethnic politics Latino politics immigration naturalization and U.S. electoral politics. He has designed and collected primary survey data that measure Latino political values attitudes and behaviors and has designed and directed ethnographic research projects that added context and nuance to the survey data. DeSipios research has expanded the boundaries of the race and ethnic politics scholarship to inform other subfields particularly immigration and immigrant settlement policy studies. Dianne Pinderhughes is Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame where she is professor of political science and of Africana studies. She is author of Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory and coauthor of Contested Transformation: Race Gender and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (2016). Pinderhughess research addresses inequality with a focus on racial ethnic and gender politics and public policy; explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century; and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2007 to 2008 and as president of the International Political Science Association from 2021 to 2023. Lorrie Frasure is the inaugural Ralph J. Bunche Endowed Chair at the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles. She is a professor of political science and African American studies at the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles. She is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and faculty director of the Center for the Study of Race Ethnicity and Politics (CSREP) at UCLA. She is the author of Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs (Cambridge University Press 2015) which won two national book awards from the American Political Science Association). Since 2008 she has served as the co-Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS). Her research interests include racial/ethnic political behavior African American politics women and politics immigrant political incorporation and state and local politics. Toni-Michelle C. Travis is professor emerita of policy and government at George Mason University and a former fellow of Oxford Universitys Rothermere American Institute. She has taught and conducted research on urban racial/ethnic and Virginia politics. She coauthor The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity Sex and Gender Social Class Sexuality and Disability (McGraw Hill 2015). Travis has served as a political analyst on Virginia and national politics.