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Racial Context Effects and the Political Participation of Asian Americans

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In 1948, V. O. Key demonstrated how racial context influences political attitudes and behavior in the South. In more recent studies, racial linked fate and racial discrimination have been identified as powerful predictors of minority political behavior. What remains unexplored in the literature is whether race-based predictors such as these vary as a direct function of racial context and, as a result, increases or decreases political participation. Past research has focused on the singular effects of racial linked fate or discrimination but has yet to examine its potential interactive effects with racial context. To assess these potentially interactive effects, this article focuses on Asian Americans living within two distinct racial contexts: Hawaii and the mainland states of California, New York, and Illinois. Although there is no effect on Asian American voting behavior, results indicate significant interactive effects of race-based predictors and racial context on Asian American nonvoting participation.

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American Politics Research

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: sage publisher., 2009

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English

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1532673x

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Vol. 37 no. 4 July 2009 pp. 569-592

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Political participation
Racial discrimination
Asian American Politics
Racial Context
Racial linked fate
Racial Context Effects and the Political

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