The Identity Trap

"There are two kinds of political scientists: The types who deal with noisy data and post on Twitter with a bunch of caveats. And then there are the types who write books about identity politics."

Where to find us:
• Twitter (twitter.com/IfBooksPod)
• Peter's other podcast, 5-4 (fivefourpod.com)
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase (maintenancephase.com)
Sources:
• Sam Huneke's "Yascha Mounk’s Woke Straw Man (newrepublic.com/article/175779/yascha-mounks-w…)"
• Jacob T. Levy's "The Defense of Liberty Can’t Do Without Identity Politics (niskanencenter.org/defense-liberty-cant-withou…)"
• Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's "Elite Capture" (haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture)
• Aaron Huertas's "We Need to Talk About Reactionary Centrists" (aaronhuertas.com/we-need-to-talk-about-reactio…)
• Mary Lin Elementary under federal investigation (thesoutherneronline.com/91196/news/mary-lin-el…)
• Parents refute claims of segregation at Mary Lin Elementary School (roughdraftatlanta.com/2021/08/12/parents-refut…)
• School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970–2000 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694754)
• 60 Years After Brown (annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc…)
• School choice and racial segregation in US schools (hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03…)
• Student Population Has Significantly Diversified, But Many Schools Remain Divided Along Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Lines (gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104737.pdf)
• U.S. public school students often go to schools where at least half of their peers are the same race or ethnicity (pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/12/15/u-s-pub…)
• The Return of Old-Fashioned Racism to White Americans’ Partisan Preferences (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1017/s0022381…)
• Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years (fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-democrats…)
• Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107260119)
• Trump, the 2016 Election, and Expressions of Sexism (tufts.app.box.com/s/wrth10sv6yv7gls8o7q3i61tan…)
• Changing Norms Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice (centenary.edu/files/resources/2018-sept-jc-zun…)
• Changes in Americans’ prejudices during the presidency of Donald Trump (researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-Ruisch/publi…)
• The CDC slide presentation (youtube.com/watch?v=6iIPYXldHV4&list=PLvrp…)
• Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies (science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abe6959)
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