Dr. Christine M. Slaughter

Multicolored background with speech bubble that reads “Voting in a sense feels like a privilege. And that’s pretty weird because people are like, ‘It’s your duty to vote.’ But it’s like, a lot of times things don’t change even if you do vote.” Text below reads “John, a 27-year-old Black UPS worker”

Multicolored background with speech bubble that reads “Politicians have a very predictable script at this point, and I’m kind of done hearing it.” Text below reads “Sylvia, an unemployed 33-year-old White woman”

Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
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Thank you for sharing, Nathan!

Section16 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Women, Gender and Politics Research (Section 16) The purpose of this section is to foster the study of women and politics within the discipline of

Self-nominations welcome to Lisa Vetter (Chair), Liza Mügge, and me!

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My 2025 paper with Nadia Brown, Camille Burge, and Kennia Corronado, Not all emotions are the same: an intersectional analysis of women’s political action based on emotive responses, published in EJPG won the Best Paper on Intersectionality!

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Did you present an APSA (@apsa.bsky.social) paper addressing intersectionality in Vancouver? This joint award from the Women and Gender Politics Section and the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section recognizes the Best Paper on intersectionality!

Due April 1st!

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Join us on March 5th in Washington, DC, for the Peopling Politics symposium!

What Clarence Thomas's ideological journey tells us about Black political thought February 2026 marks the Centennial celebration of Black History Month, which was originally called Negro History Week in 1926. Black […]

Black History Month is a reminder of the complex array of views among Black people.

Here's what Clarence Thomas’s ideological journey tells us about Black political thought.

Read our latest from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @cmslaughter.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/what-cl...

A new leader comes in and cleans house!

Chart with Turnout on the Y axis & election year (2016, 2020, and 2024) on the X axis. 6 lines, 3 for White, Black, and Hispanic in households making over $100k/year, 3 for the same groups in households making under $30k/year. Overall you can see turnout increasing among higher-income people in all three racial groups, and declining (White and Black) or staying flat (Hispanic) among low-income people; the turnout gap by income is much larger in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016. from 2016 -> 2024: - White $100k turnout goes from 65% to 78% while white under $30k turnout goes from 55% to 49% - Black over $100k turnout goes from 51% to 64% while Black under $30k turnout goes from 48% to 33% - Hispanic over $100k turnout goes from 52% to 67% while Hispanic under $30k turnout stays flat at about 36% (higher in 2020 at 42%). Caption: "Our analysis, Cooperative Election Survey Data, Validated Votes."

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing.

That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy.

It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them.

In a report out in Jan +

Wonderful, I look forward to reading!

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Looking forward to reading this new research. We need scholarship that continues to expose the disastrous effects of the Roberts’ Court’s assault on the Voting Rights Act.

Thanks @kevintmorris.bsky.social and @michaelgmiller.bsky.social.

Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #EconSky

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Five Ways Tuesday’s Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy From felony disenfranchisement and mail voting to mid-decade gerrymanders, Tuesday delivered verdicts on election law across these five states.

Maine voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure with restrictions on voting, 64 to 36 percent. “It sends a strong message that Mainers agree: We should not be making it harder for people to have their voices heard,” the Maine secretary of state told Bolts.

As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight - Bolts Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council.

@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

I just solved Black Crossword's puzzle "Wednesday, October 29, 2025" in 1:42. Can you beat my time? Visit blackcrossword.com to play. crosshare.org/crosswords/c...

JREP abstract discussing how solidarity among people of color might alter systemic discrimination, focusing on Asian American experiences and proposing research into systematic injustices and racial dynamics between racial minorities in the U.S.

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Rage Against the Machine? Why System Justification Drives (Some) Asian Americans to Spurn Racial Solidarity - https://cup.org/4qoWJL1

- @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social, et al

#JREP10

GEORGIA: VOTE EARLY NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 31 OR ON ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 4. Visit peachvote.com for more information 🗳

Cover of JHPPL special issue "JHPPL at 50"

Happy birthday @jhppl.bsky.social! 🎉Our special issue celebrating 50 years of JHPPL and the past and future of health politics and policy just dropped. Start with our opening essay w/ @oberlanderunc.bsky.social and follow along for more. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

As predicted.

Drawing attention to Black Americans' persistent disapproval of the President.

Net job approval for Donald Trump at the start of his second term | now among...
White Americans +17 | +1
Hispanic Americans -5 | -42
Black Americans -31 | -74

If anyone asks why research on Black politics is absent in the top political science journals, know that it’s not because we aren’t submitting it. It’s getting rejected!

I don't feel bad for Curtis Siwa standing in the middle of these two.

A reminder: you can be in the center, but not the center of attention.

Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court

This is such a powerful piece from @reptroycarter.bsky.social and @repfields.bsky.social on the importance of the Voting Rights Act.

As the Supreme Court hears arguments on this legislation, it is so vital that we all remember WHY it was enacted.

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U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

Since Sept 2, The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects.

Here's a gift article

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and so it begins, requiring re-registration after being falsey purged initially is voter suppression. It also places great demands on community organizers to re-reregister previously purged voters

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