Politicized Identities: Group Consciousness and Linked Fate Among Latinos

Monday, January 22

Sanchez, Gabriel, Natalie Masuoka, and Brooke Abrams. 2019. “Revisiting the Brown-Utility Heuristic: A Comparison of Latino Linked Fate in 2006 and 2016.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 7(3): 673–83.

What does it mean to have a sense of linked fate with someone from your same ethnic/racial group? Can you see this in the people around you (e.g., do they have a sense of ethnic/racial linked fate)?
Why have scholars applied concepts such as group consciousness and linked fate that come from the scholarship on Black politics to Latines? Do these models fit Latines?
Do Sanchez, Masuoka, and Abrams (2019) find consistency across time in what factors contribute to a sense of Latino linked fate? Explain.

We will discuss the campaign memo

Sanchez, Gabriel R., and Edward D. Vargas. 2016. “Taking a Closer Look at Group Identity: The Link between Theory and Measurement of Group Consciousness and Linked Fate.” Political Research Quarterly 69(1): 160–74.
Lavariega Monforti, Jessica, and Gabriel R. Sanchez. 2010. “The Politics of Perception: An Investigation of the Presence and Sources of Perceptions of Internal Discrimination Among Latinos.” Social Science Quarterly 91(1): 245–65. available on Canvas

What are some constraints to the development of linked fate among Latinos?
What do Lavariega Monforti and Sanchez (2010) argue predicts perceptions of international discrimination among Latinos and why?
What can we learn from this paper and what remains to be explained?

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