UAR Reading List: Gender, Race, and Electoral Politics

Following this weekend’s announcement that President Biden would not seek election, and the all-but-certain nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris secured for the Democratic Party, we assembled a reading list from the UAR archive. These articles address the issues of gender, race, and electoral politics (and their intersections) through the lens of urban studies and draw on a diverse range of methods. As the presidential election approaches, we hope to continue building out this list and solicit new research to examine these themes.

Black Political Representation in Southern Cities: Election Systems and Other Causal Variables

Margaret K. Latimer (1979)

The Impact of Cross-Racial Voting on St. Louis Primary Election Results

Lisa C. Delorenzo, Carol W. Kohfeld, and Lana Stein (1997)

The Urban Electorate in Presidential Elections, 1920-1996

Richard Sauerzopf and Todd Swanstrom (1999)

Identity Politics and Local Political Culture: Some Comparative Results from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey

Richard E. Deleon and Katherine C. Naff (2004)

What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban Vote

Robert M. Stein, Stacy G. Ulbig, and Stephanie Shirley Post (2005)

Voting for Minority Candidates in Multiracial/Multiethnic Communities

Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine (2013)