Danielle Casarez Lemi

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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I show that using racial identity for political gain is neither clear-cut nor ambiguous. #APSA2025

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The book assembles a rare combination of text analysis, discourse analysis, survey analysis, experimental analysis, nationwide interviews, and case studies of multiracial politicians, including a study of Vice President Kamala Harris. #APSA2025

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I develop an interdisciplinary theory of identity labor that explains how multiracial politicians perform their racial identities, especially according to their appearance. #APSA2025

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In Doing Identity Labor, I provide one of the first book-length treatments of how multiracial politicians, across office, geography, and background, navigate identity in public life. #APSA2025

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If you're a mixed person considering running for office, or if you develop training programs for candidates and want to advise mixed candidates on how to market their identities, this book is for you. #APSA2025

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If you're waiting for #Kamala Harris's new book to drop next week and want a deeper theoretical understanding of how politicians like her use their identities in public, this book is for you. #APSA2025

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IT'S OFFICIAL!! My second book, Doing Identity Labor: How Mixed-Race Politicians Disrupt Descriptive Representation is available for pre-order at OUP! Order below! #APSA2025

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Critical perspectives article "From Descriptive to Identity Representation: What If a Woman of Color Led the American Empire?" by Danielle Casarez Lemi. Introduction begins: At the 2024 US Democratic Convention, Kamala Harris presented her approach to the military in her speech accepting her historic nomination as the party’s candidate for the US presidency. In this essay, I reflect on the question: what would it mean if a woman of color led the American empire? I argue that scholars of gender, politics, and representation must turn their attention toward evaluating not just how gender conditions how politicians legislate, run their campaigns, or face barriers to winning office — but whether and to what extent politicians of any gender use their identities to combat the material suffering wrought by American imperialism.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

For our critical perspective on the 2024 election, @dlemi.bsky.social asks what it means for a Black woman to lead the American empire, complicating the nature of representation across borders.

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