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Intersectional linked fate and political representation

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In the last several elections, there has been a substantial diversification of political candidates both at the national and state level, particularly in the Democratic Party as discussed by the authors. This includes record...
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In the last several elections, there has been a substantial diversification of political candidates both at the national and state level, particularly in the Democratic Party. This includes record ...

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Boundaries of Blackness: Groupness and Linked Fate

TL;DR: This article found that black spouses have a sense of group identity in which they understand blacks as part of their imagined community; this, along with ancestry, physical appearance, and official documentation comprise their black identity.
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The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

TL;DR: Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn as discussed by the authors examined how these two sets of adolescents, who completed their secondary schooling in the late 1980s and early 1990s, manage decisions about post-secondary education, work, and relationships in a context of increasing economic insecurity, global competition, workplace restructuring, and persistent inequalities by class and gender.
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Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test

TL;DR: This article found that exposure to these social movement frames generates differential effects on respondents' willingness to support, trust, canvass, and write representatives about the Black Lives Matter movement, which raises new questions about the deployment of intersectional messaging strategies within movements for racial justice.
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Shared Identities: Intersectionality, Linked Fate, and Perceptions of Political Candidates:

TL;DR: The importance that descriptive representation plays for marginalized groups, if not substantively than symbolically, has been acknowledged by scholars of gender and race as mentioned in this paper, who have long acknowledged the importance of descriptive representation.
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The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

TL;DR: Kamala Harris as discussed by the authors was referred to as the best looking attorney general in the country by former President Barack Obama at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in 2013 and was later elected to the US Senate in 2016.
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Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color

TL;DR: This paper explored the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color and found that the experiences of women of colour are often the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism.

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color

TL;DR: The authors discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.
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Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics

TL;DR: The authors argues that Black women are sometimes excluded from feminist theory and antiracist policy discourse because both are predicated on a discrete set of experiences that often does not accurately reflect the interaction of race and gender.
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The Complexity of Intersectionality

TL;DR: The authors argue that intersectionality is the most important theoretical contribution women's studies, in conjunction with related fields, has made so far, and they even say that intersectional is a central category of analysis in women’s studies, and that women are perhaps alone in the academy in the extent to which they have embraced intersectionality.
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When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

TL;DR: The authors presented a coherent set of empirical research standards for intersectionality in political science, including race and gender across subfields of political science to present a coherent framework for intersectional research.
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