Danielle Casarez Lemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3702199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Casarez Lemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle Casarez |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemi |
| SIGNATURE | LEMI D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6613-2626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Only for Some Women: Experimental Evidence on Descriptive Representation and Political Engagement
Does the presence of women in office or on the ballot lead to increased engagement among women? Empirical support for this relationship has been mixed. Some studies show significant effects on political participation, some find null effects, and others show conditional effects. We contend that mobilizing effects from a descriptive representative may be more likely among women with a higher sense of gender-linked fate and for more intensive activi…
From Descriptive to Identity Representation: What If a Woman of Color Led the American Empire
At the 2024 US Democratic Convention, Kamala Harris presented her approach to the military in her speech accepting her historic nomination as the party’s candidate for the US presidency. In this essay, I reflect on the question: what would it mean if a woman of color led the American empire? I argue that scholars of gender, politics, and representation must turn their attention toward evaluating not just how gender conditions how politicians legi…
Skin Tone and the Moderating Effect of Partisanship on Assessments of Elected Officials of Color
Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos
Are Filipino Americans closer to Asian Americans or Latinos, politically? We argue that due to Spanish and American colonialism, this is an open question. We test hypotheses regarding Filipino American distinctiveness from other Asian Americans using data from two nationally representative surveys of Asian Americans. Discrimination drives Filipino Americans’ sense of pan-ethnic linked fate with Asian Americans, but not their perceptions of politi…
Creating Resource Pathways: Considering Opportunities and Funding Sources for Women of Color in the Discipline
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Sister Style: Response from the Authors
In this response, Brown and Lemi address feedback from Wrighten's read of Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites. Here we take seriously the implications of the work as well as future studies that draw from our findings. The conversation between the authors and the respondent reveal deeper insights into how and why the politics of appearance maintain a continued salience in American politics for Black women
Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates — Corrigendum
Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris
How do voters evaluate descriptive representatives who vary in prototypicality? Specifically, how do Indian American voters evaluate Black women candidates who are also Indian American, or Indian American women candidates who are also Black? Using the case of Kamala Harris, we present findings from an original survey experiment of over 1,000 Indian Americans collected just prior to the 2020 election. We examine the power of shared identity cues f…
The Structure of Presidential Evaluations: White Men, White Women, and Trump
This study uses an intersectional lens to study the structure of presidential evaluations among white men and white women. I argue that due to their distinct positions of power in American politics via the intersection of race and gender, different processes, wrapped into white heteropatriarchy, explain white men and women's 2018 favorable mid-term evaluations of President Donald Trump. Using a sample from the 2018 CCES, I find that although ther…
What is a Descriptive Representative
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Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites
Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi argue that Black women's political experience and the way that voters evaluate them is shaped overtly by their skin tone and hair texture, with hair being a particular point of scrutiny. They ask what the politics of appearance for Black women mean for Black women politicians and Black voters, and how expectations about self-presentation differ for Black women versus Black men, White men, and White women. …
Do Voters Prefer Just Any Descriptive Representative? The Case of Multiracial Candidates
Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on shared demographic traits, we know little about how voters respond to candidates who belong to multiple racial categories. Multiracial candidates challenge how we think about and study representation. I theorize that multiracial categories provide mixed information about how well a candidate adheres to group norms of identity, resulting in a multiracial ad…
The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication
This article explores the effect of explicitly racial and inflammatory speech by political elites on mass citizens in a societal context where equality norms are widespread and generally heeded yet a subset of citizens nonetheless possesses deeply ingrained racial prejudices. The authors argue that such speech should have an ‘emboldening effect’ among the prejudiced, particularly where it is not clearly and strongly condemned by other elite polit…
The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered
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Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates
Research on candidate evaluation has delved into questions of how voters evaluate women candidates, Black male candidates, as well as how candidates’ appearances may condition electoral opportunities. Combined, this scholarship has tended to focus on how race, gender, and skin tone privilege or undermine evaluations of Black male or White women candidates. We intervene to study Black women candidates and draw on research on colorism and Black wom…
Introducing People of Color Also Know Stuff
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Identity and coalitions in a multiracial era: How state legislators navigate race and ethnicity
Research on descriptive representatives provides mixed evidence that race informs legislators’ political views. However, past work conflates racial categorization with racial identity, and often lacks variation in race as the key variable. Additionally, few studies examine how diversity within groups may impact intergroup relations within the legislature. The presence of multiracial elected officials prompts us to revisit the linkages descriptive…
Are Asian Americans Who Have Interracial Relationships Politically Distinct
Research on interracial marriage and relationships uses the incidence of interracial romantic relationships to measure immigrant assimilation. Little attention, however, has been paid to the implications of interracial relationships for racial group politics. Are those who practice exogamy politically distinct from those who do not? We develop testable hypotheses from existing theories of and literature on interracial marriages/relationships. We …
Meet the 2016 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipients
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The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication
This article explores the effect of explicitly racial and inflammatory speech by political elites on mass citizens in a societal context where equality norms are widespread and generally heeded yet a subset of citizens nonetheless possesses deeply ingrained racial prejudices. The authors argue that such speech should have an ‘emboldening effect’ among the prejudiced, particularly where it is not clearly and strongly condemned by other elite polit…
Do Voters Prefer Just Any Descriptive Representative? The Case of Multiracial Candidates
Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on shared demographic traits, we know little about how voters respond to candidates who belong to multiple racial categories. Multiracial candidates challenge how we think about and study representation. I theorize that multiracial categories provide mixed information about how well a candidate adheres to group norms of identity, resulting in a multiracial ad…
Identity and coalitions in a multiracial era: How state legislators navigate race and ethnicity
Research on descriptive representatives provides mixed evidence that race informs legislators’ political views. However, past work conflates racial categorization with racial identity, and often lacks variation in race as the key variable. Additionally, few studies examine how diversity within groups may impact intergroup relations within the legislature. The presence of multiracial elected officials prompts us to revisit the linkages descriptive…
Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris
How do voters evaluate descriptive representatives who vary in prototypicality? Specifically, how do Indian American voters evaluate Black women candidates who are also Indian American, or Indian American women candidates who are also Black? Using the case of Kamala Harris, we present findings from an original survey experiment of over 1,000 Indian Americans collected just prior to the 2020 election. We examine the power of shared identity cues f…
Introducing People of Color Also Know Stuff
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What is a Descriptive Representative
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The Structure of Presidential Evaluations: White Men, White Women, and Trump
This study uses an intersectional lens to study the structure of presidential evaluations among white men and white women. I argue that due to their distinct positions of power in American politics via the intersection of race and gender, different processes, wrapped into white heteropatriarchy, explain white men and women's 2018 favorable mid-term evaluations of President Donald Trump. Using a sample from the 2018 CCES, I find that although ther…
The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered
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Are Asian Americans Who Have Interracial Relationships Politically Distinct
Research on interracial marriage and relationships uses the incidence of interracial romantic relationships to measure immigrant assimilation. Little attention, however, has been paid to the implications of interracial relationships for racial group politics. Are those who practice exogamy politically distinct from those who do not? We develop testable hypotheses from existing theories of and literature on interracial marriages/relationships. We …
Meet the 2016 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Identity and coalitions in a multiracial era: How state legislators navigate race and ethnicity
Research on descriptive representatives provides mixed evidence that race informs legislators’ political views. However, past work conflates racial categorization with racial identity, and often lacks variation in race as the key variable. Additionally, few studies examine how diversity within groups may impact intergroup relations within the legislature. The presence of multiracial elected officials prompts us to revisit the linkages descriptive…
Are Asian Americans Who Have Interracial Relationships Politically Distinct
Research on interracial marriage and relationships uses the incidence of interracial romantic relationships to measure immigrant assimilation. Little attention, however, has been paid to the implications of interracial relationships for racial group politics. Are those who practice exogamy politically distinct from those who do not? We develop testable hypotheses from existing theories of and literature on interracial marriages/relationships. We …
Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates
Research on candidate evaluation has delved into questions of how voters evaluate women candidates, Black male candidates, as well as how candidates’ appearances may condition electoral opportunities. Combined, this scholarship has tended to focus on how race, gender, and skin tone privilege or undermine evaluations of Black male or White women candidates. We intervene to study Black women candidates and draw on research on colorism and Black wom…
Introducing People of Color Also Know Stuff
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites
Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi argue that Black women's political experience and the way that voters evaluate them is shaped overtly by their skin tone and hair texture, with hair being a particular point of scrutiny. They ask what the politics of appearance for Black women mean for Black women politicians and Black voters, and how expectations about self-presentation differ for Black women versus Black men, White men, and White women. …
Do Voters Prefer Just Any Descriptive Representative? The Case of Multiracial Candidates
Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on shared demographic traits, we know little about how voters respond to candidates who belong to multiple racial categories. Multiracial candidates challenge how we think about and study representation. I theorize that multiracial categories provide mixed information about how well a candidate adheres to group norms of identity, resulting in a multiracial ad…
The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication
This article explores the effect of explicitly racial and inflammatory speech by political elites on mass citizens in a societal context where equality norms are widespread and generally heeded yet a subset of citizens nonetheless possesses deeply ingrained racial prejudices. The authors argue that such speech should have an ‘emboldening effect’ among the prejudiced, particularly where it is not clearly and strongly condemned by other elite polit…
Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos
Are Filipino Americans closer to Asian Americans or Latinos, politically? We argue that due to Spanish and American colonialism, this is an open question. We test hypotheses regarding Filipino American distinctiveness from other Asian Americans using data from two nationally representative surveys of Asian Americans. Discrimination drives Filipino Americans’ sense of pan-ethnic linked fate with Asian Americans, but not their perceptions of politi…
Creating Resource Pathways: Considering Opportunities and Funding Sources for Women of Color in the Discipline
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sister Style: Response from the Authors
In this response, Brown and Lemi address feedback from Wrighten's read of Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites. Here we take seriously the implications of the work as well as future studies that draw from our findings. The conversation between the authors and the respondent reveal deeper insights into how and why the politics of appearance maintain a continued salience in American politics for Black women
Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates — Corrigendum
Black and Desi: Indian American Perceptions of Kamala Harris
How do voters evaluate descriptive representatives who vary in prototypicality? Specifically, how do Indian American voters evaluate Black women candidates who are also Indian American, or Indian American women candidates who are also Black? Using the case of Kamala Harris, we present findings from an original survey experiment of over 1,000 Indian Americans collected just prior to the 2020 election. We examine the power of shared identity cues f…
The Structure of Presidential Evaluations: White Men, White Women, and Trump
This study uses an intersectional lens to study the structure of presidential evaluations among white men and white women. I argue that due to their distinct positions of power in American politics via the intersection of race and gender, different processes, wrapped into white heteropatriarchy, explain white men and women's 2018 favorable mid-term evaluations of President Donald Trump. Using a sample from the 2018 CCES, I find that although ther…
What is a Descriptive Representative
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Skin Tone and the Moderating Effect of Partisanship on Assessments of Elected Officials of Color
From Descriptive to Identity Representation: What If a Woman of Color Led the American Empire
At the 2024 US Democratic Convention, Kamala Harris presented her approach to the military in her speech accepting her historic nomination as the party’s candidate for the US presidency. In this essay, I reflect on the question: what would it mean if a woman of color led the American empire? I argue that scholars of gender, politics, and representation must turn their attention toward evaluating not just how gender conditions how politicians legi…
Only for Some Women: Experimental Evidence on Descriptive Representation and Political Engagement
Does the presence of women in office or on the ballot lead to increased engagement among women? Empirical support for this relationship has been mixed. Some studies show significant effects on political participation, some find null effects, and others show conditional effects. We contend that mobilizing effects from a descriptive representative may be more likely among women with a higher sense of gender-linked fate and for more intensive activi…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)