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Constitutive Questions and Debates Constitutive Questions and Debates
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The Effect of Racism on Institutions and Policies The Effect of Racism on Institutions and Policies
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The Revolution, the Constitution, and US State-Building The Revolution, the Constitution, and US State-Building
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Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Racial Violence Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Racial Violence
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The Effect of Institutions, Policies, and Behavior on Racial Inequality The Effect of Institutions, Policies, and Behavior on Racial Inequality
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Policies, Institutions, and Racial Formation: Some Future Directions Policies, Institutions, and Racial Formation: Some Future Directions
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Race and Racial Categories as Variable Race and Racial Categories as Variable
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Agency and Participation from the Margins Agency and Participation from the Margins
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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References References
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35 Race and Historical Political Economy
Get accessDavid Bateman is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses broadly on democratic institutions, including legislatures and political rights, and as well as on ideas and ideologies of democracy, race, and racism. His co-authored book, Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, examines the role of southern members of Congress in shaping national policy from the end of Reconstruction until the New Deal. His second book, Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, examines the concurrent expansion of political rights alongside mass disenfranchisement in these three countries.
Jacob M. Grumbach is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race, and faculty affiliate at the Bridges Center for Labor Studies. He received my PhD from UC Berkeley in spring of 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton. His book, Laboratories against Democracy, focuses on the nationalization of state politics and its consequences for U.S. democracy.
Chloe Thurston is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Research is on American political development, political economy, and public policy, with a particular interest in how politics and public policy shape market inequalities along the lines of race and gender. She is the author of At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination and the American State.
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Published:26 January 2023
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This chapter examines the study of race in historical political economy (HPE) research on the United States. Scholarship in race and HPE is wide-ranging, spanning the fields of political science, economics, history, and sociology, and featuring a diversity of theoretical and empirical methods. The chapter highlights key questions in the race and HPE literature, including democratization, the effects of slavery and segregation (both de jure and de facto), racial exclusion in the welfare state, and coercive state development. The chapter then circumscribes time periods under study: the antebellum, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, New Deal, civil rights, and post-civil rights periods. Finally, the article discusses limitations in the race and HPE literature and lessons that can be drawn from research in American political development and racial capitalism.
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