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Racial Roots of the Social Psychology and Institutional Logic of 21st Century Partisan Polarization

In this lecture we concentrate on the demographic earthquake that is remaking American society and politics, the way in which this is changing the nature of white identity and the psychology of race and belonging in the contemporary US, and how this contributes to partisan polarization in light of the fact that the Democrat's success and the Republican's failure in becoming a party that attracts support from an increasingly diverse and multi-racial electorate. We concentrate on Jennifer Richeson's claim that present demographic and political conditions "democratize racial discomfort" and a wonderful passage in an essay by James Baldwin: “An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger: the stranger’s presence making you the stranger, less to the stranger than to yourself." (The Devil Finds Work, p.77)