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The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotions in Politics, a lecture by Dr. Davin Phoenix

May 18 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Dr. Davin Phoenix will join us to give the 2020 Robison Lecture on his research on anger, race, and politics. His research uncovers a racial anger gap and underscores its relevance to politics. Among African Americans, anger over political figures, parties and regimes emerges less frequently, and translates less effectively to electoral and civic political actions. Rooted in the stigmatization of Black anger, the lack of collective agency felt by African Americans, and the distinct sense of racial resignation shaping the group’s perceptions of politics, this gap widens the Black-White electoral participation divide and shapes the tenor of partisan politics, interracial coalitions and Black organizing in the current era.

Dr. Phoenix will be available after the lecture to take your questions. His book of the same title as the lecture, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotions in Politics, won the prestigious Ralphe Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association in 2020. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Irvine and has won numerous awards for his teaching, research, and mentorship, including the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Black Leadership Advancement Coalition.

This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, A.B.L.E., the office of the Dean of the College, and through the generosity of the Robison Lecture Series. Past Robison lecturers include former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (1996), former Senator George Mitchell (2003), and environmentalist and former Vice Presidential candidate Winona LaDuke (2013), among others.