The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals By Christopher T. Stout. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. 268 pp., $42.50 Cloth.

Why are backlash politics so prevalent in the context of demographic change? And so that we may understand how to mitigate social conflict, what role do government and political actors play in their inflammation or reconciliation? Drawing from a larger study of six societies that have dealt with significant demographic change, I review the ways that government and political leaders’ actions can produce three different social cleavages: (1) an overriding and enduring cleavage between ethnic constituencies in national politics, (2) an overriding cleavage that is suppressed by political actors, or (3) a new definition of social cleavages that re-constructs public understandings of the nation. I find that the drivers of these different trajectories relate to state actions in the construction of national identities, which either exclude certain subgroups or absorb them into a state of coexistence. I identify five ways governments channel backlash politics towards exclusion or coexistence, and provide examples from Hawai‘i, a case where historical cleavages between natives and immigrants nearly disappeared. Ultimately, I find that these politics are subject to competing understandings of the nation – the pivotal sense of ‘we’ – that can unite or divide a multiethnic society.

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Response to Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes’s Review of The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592721003236 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 1284-1284

Author(s):

Christopher T. Stout

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Demographic Change

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KURT E. ENGELMANN AND VJERAN PAVLAKOVIC, EDS., Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). Pp. 318. $30.00 paper

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743804362306 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 314-315

Author(s):

JESSICA ALLINA-PISANO

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Rural Development ◽

Demographic Change ◽

Land Reform ◽

Environmental Constraints ◽

University Of Washington ◽

Seattle University

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Injector for a 100-500 kV Linac Electron Microscopy Source

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100061380 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 274-275

Author(s):

John W. Coleman

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Linear Accelerator ◽

Beam Current ◽

Ion Trapping ◽

University Of Virginia ◽

Electron Injector ◽

Illumination System ◽

Radio Corporation Of America ◽

The University ◽

Optical Integration

The injector to be described is a component in the Electron Injector-Linear Accelerator—Condenser Module for illumination used on the variable 100-500kV electron microscope being built at the Radio Corporation of America for the University of Virginia.The injector is an independently powered, autonomous unit, operating at a constant 6kV positive with respect to accelerator potential, thereby making beam current independent of accelerator potential. The injector provides for on-axis ion trapping to prolong filament lifetime, and incorporates a derived Einzel lens for optical integration into the overall illumination system for microscopy. Electrostatic beam deflectors for alignment are an integral part of the apparatus. The entire injector unit is cantilevered off a door for side loading, and is topped with a 4-filament turret released electrically but driven by a self-contained Negator spring motor.

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