The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race: responding to a moment of crisis with analysis, insight & action

This themed issue is on the 2024 election and the politics of race. And it is also necessarily about the racial dynamics unfolding under the Trump administration at present. The questions addressed by the twelve authors in this volume include: What are the historical conditions that allowed a nativist, white supremacist political movement to go mainstream in the twenty-first century U.S.? How is racism embedded in American political institutions? How do people understand the connection between their racial positionality and their political interests? What are the relationships between emotions and politics and emotions and race? How are gendered projects and racial projects linked in contemporary U.S. political discourse? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the organized left at this time? And what kinds of mobilization and resistance to racism in the Trump era are necessary and possible?.