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Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States. By Natalie Masuoka. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 280p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

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the removal of the Chicago housing projects was concentrated within a 500-meter radius and faded entirely outside 1 kilometer (p. 152). In contrast, the resistance of Los Angeles–area Latinos to… Click to show full abstract

the removal of the Chicago housing projects was concentrated within a 500-meter radius and faded entirely outside 1 kilometer (p. 152). In contrast, the resistance of Los Angeles–area Latinos to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries was strongest within 1 kilometer of majority-black precincts and was still apparent at a distance of 20 kilometers (p. 219). Elsewhere, the book suggests that the impact of residential segregation on certain attitudes and behavior can extend across the width of an entire multicounty metropolitan area (e.g., pp. 36–41). One final virtue is worthy of mention. The author employs an engaging style that is accessible to students and the interested public as well as academic specialists. Enos uses plain language to explain the reasoning behind his methodological choices and the relationship of his results to the findings of previous research; he also illustrates many key points with personal anecdotes. In this way, The Space Between Us resembles Katherine J. Cramer’s (2016) The Politics of Resentment, another intellectually rigorous but highly readable recent work that similarly illustrates how citizens remain politically rooted in geographic place even in our supposedly globalized age. Like Cramer, Enos suggests convincingly that making sense of the popular anxiety and disorientation that characterizes modern political life requires an examination of the sometimes explosive energy released when the psychological predispositions of individuals meet larger social and institutional change.

Keywords: racial politics; united states; states natalie; identity racial; politics united; multiracial identity

Journal Title: Perspectives on Politics
Year Published: 2019

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