Christine M Slaughter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine M Slaughter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Slaughter |
| SIGNATURE | SLAUGHTER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8733-6708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voting the Same, Feeling Differently: Sister Circles, Black Feminist Epistemologies, and Black Women’s Political Emotions During the Harris Campaign
Kamala Harris, a first multi-racial Black woman, became the official Democratic presidential nominee on August 5, 2025. This historic achievement only amplified the intensity of discussions about Black women’s politics in the United States. As Black feminist political scientists studying Black women’s politics, we knew we needed to document the nuance, dynamism, and historical nature of Harris’s campaign. We were keenly aware that we needed to ca…
Social Media and Candidate Favorability: TikTok and Support for Harris During the 2024 Presidential Election
During Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential bid, there was a substantial wave of social media messaging aimed at mobilizing voters. Previous research indicates that many American voters obtain political news through social media; therefore, political candidates often use social media as a critical campaign strategy to garner widespread attention. We examine the influence of different Harris TikTok videos during the shortened 2024 pres…
Even among the 92%, It’s Complicated: Examining Black Women Voters’ Emotions and Evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2024 Election
Bootstrap Blackness: Black Men, Conservatism, and Party Politics
Ideological diversity has long characterized the Black community, yet this diversity has historically manifested as political homogeneity in electoral participation. While Black men vote for Democratic candidates at lower rates than Black women, they continue to support Democrats at higher rates than Latino, Asian, and white men and women. Despite their comparatively high turnout, Black men are frequently scapegoated for Democratic losses, even w…
Sacred For Whom? Race Ideology and Reactions to January 6th
The January 6 th insurrection at the U.S. capital was an eye-opening moment for many Americans. With the 2024 election cycle in swing, members of the Democratic Party are using January 6 th as a rallying call for the need to protect democracy. But were the events of January 6 th viewed equally among liberals? We argue that the events of January 6 th resonate for a particular demographic well-informed liberal White voters. We argue that liberal mi…
Black agency and Black political attitudes: Examining major questions with contemporary data
Not all emotions are the same: An Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses
If there was ever a time in US history to understand women’s politics, that time is certainly now, as with the increase of women candidates, the rise of women’s political engagement, and women-led social movements, scholars have little intersectional insight into what motivates women’s political participation. Anger and fear are powerful forces in US politics, yet how negative emotions about race matter for women is less understood. Using the 202…
Lessons Learned from Black Women’s Resilience and the 2024 Election
Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee on August 23, 2024. Her campaign was significantly different than others. As the sitting vice president to Joe Biden, Harris’s campaign was shortened. She had less than 90 days to mount a formal campaign after her endorsement from Biden. In this essay, I take an intersectional analytical framework — accounting for how power in society is shaped by multiple axes of social divi…
Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party
In the United States, Black women have been touted as the saving grace of the Democratic Party. Using data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, a cooperative, user-driven data set that provides a large and diverse sample of racial and ethnic groups in the United States, we develop a deeper understanding of the role of partisanship and civic duty in Black women’s support for Hillary Clinton and their political participatio…
Pay to Play? How Reducing Apsa Division Fees Increases Graduate Student Participation
In 2017, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession launched an initiative to lower the cost of Division (i.e., organized section) membership for students to promote graduate students’ professional development and to advance Division interests. This article assesses the effect of this intervention on Division membership. Using APSA membership data, we find that almost two third…
Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout
Context: This article untangles the effects of depression on voter turnout among blacks and whites and among women and men and considers several factors—income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment—that may mitigate the negative effects of depression on turnout. Methods: The authors estimated regression models of voter turnout on depression across race and gender groups using data from the Panel Study of Incom…
The Strike of Yorkshire Mineworkers in May, 1955
Modern Marriage and the Roles of the Sexes
Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout
Context: This article untangles the effects of depression on voter turnout among blacks and whites and among women and men and considers several factors—income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment—that may mitigate the negative effects of depression on turnout. Methods: The authors estimated regression models of voter turnout on depression across race and gender groups using data from the Panel Study of Incom…
Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party
In the United States, Black women have been touted as the saving grace of the Democratic Party. Using data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, a cooperative, user-driven data set that provides a large and diverse sample of racial and ethnic groups in the United States, we develop a deeper understanding of the role of partisanship and civic duty in Black women’s support for Hillary Clinton and their political participatio…
Not all emotions are the same: An Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses
If there was ever a time in US history to understand women’s politics, that time is certainly now, as with the increase of women candidates, the rise of women’s political engagement, and women-led social movements, scholars have little intersectional insight into what motivates women’s political participation. Anger and fear are powerful forces in US politics, yet how negative emotions about race matter for women is less understood. Using the 202…
Lessons Learned from Black Women’s Resilience and the 2024 Election
Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee on August 23, 2024. Her campaign was significantly different than others. As the sitting vice president to Joe Biden, Harris’s campaign was shortened. She had less than 90 days to mount a formal campaign after her endorsement from Biden. In this essay, I take an intersectional analytical framework — accounting for how power in society is shaped by multiple axes of social divi…
The Strike of Yorkshire Mineworkers in May, 1955
Modern Marriage and the Roles of the Sexes
The Strike of Yorkshire Mineworkers in May, 1955
Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout
Context: This article untangles the effects of depression on voter turnout among blacks and whites and among women and men and considers several factors—income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment—that may mitigate the negative effects of depression on turnout. Methods: The authors estimated regression models of voter turnout on depression across race and gender groups using data from the Panel Study of Incom…
Pay to Play? How Reducing Apsa Division Fees Increases Graduate Student Participation
In 2017, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession launched an initiative to lower the cost of Division (i.e., organized section) membership for students to promote graduate students’ professional development and to advance Division interests. This article assesses the effect of this intervention on Division membership. Using APSA membership data, we find that almost two third…
Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party
In the United States, Black women have been touted as the saving grace of the Democratic Party. Using data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, a cooperative, user-driven data set that provides a large and diverse sample of racial and ethnic groups in the United States, we develop a deeper understanding of the role of partisanship and civic duty in Black women’s support for Hillary Clinton and their political participatio…
Sacred For Whom? Race Ideology and Reactions to January 6th
The January 6 th insurrection at the U.S. capital was an eye-opening moment for many Americans. With the 2024 election cycle in swing, members of the Democratic Party are using January 6 th as a rallying call for the need to protect democracy. But were the events of January 6 th viewed equally among liberals? We argue that the events of January 6 th resonate for a particular demographic well-informed liberal White voters. We argue that liberal mi…
Black agency and Black political attitudes: Examining major questions with contemporary data
Not all emotions are the same: An Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses
If there was ever a time in US history to understand women’s politics, that time is certainly now, as with the increase of women candidates, the rise of women’s political engagement, and women-led social movements, scholars have little intersectional insight into what motivates women’s political participation. Anger and fear are powerful forces in US politics, yet how negative emotions about race matter for women is less understood. Using the 202…
Lessons Learned from Black Women’s Resilience and the 2024 Election
Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee on August 23, 2024. Her campaign was significantly different than others. As the sitting vice president to Joe Biden, Harris’s campaign was shortened. She had less than 90 days to mount a formal campaign after her endorsement from Biden. In this essay, I take an intersectional analytical framework — accounting for how power in society is shaped by multiple axes of social divi…
Voting the Same, Feeling Differently: Sister Circles, Black Feminist Epistemologies, and Black Women’s Political Emotions During the Harris Campaign
Kamala Harris, a first multi-racial Black woman, became the official Democratic presidential nominee on August 5, 2025. This historic achievement only amplified the intensity of discussions about Black women’s politics in the United States. As Black feminist political scientists studying Black women’s politics, we knew we needed to document the nuance, dynamism, and historical nature of Harris’s campaign. We were keenly aware that we needed to ca…
Social Media and Candidate Favorability: TikTok and Support for Harris During the 2024 Presidential Election
During Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential bid, there was a substantial wave of social media messaging aimed at mobilizing voters. Previous research indicates that many American voters obtain political news through social media; therefore, political candidates often use social media as a critical campaign strategy to garner widespread attention. We examine the influence of different Harris TikTok videos during the shortened 2024 pres…
Even among the 92%, It’s Complicated: Examining Black Women Voters’ Emotions and Evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2024 Election
Bootstrap Blackness: Black Men, Conservatism, and Party Politics
Ideological diversity has long characterized the Black community, yet this diversity has historically manifested as political homogeneity in electoral participation. While Black men vote for Democratic candidates at lower rates than Black women, they continue to support Democrats at higher rates than Latino, Asian, and white men and women. Despite their comparatively high turnout, Black men are frequently scapegoated for Democratic losses, even w…
Politics (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)