The politics of deracialisation
South Asian American candidates, nicknames, and campaign strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shyam Krishnan Sriram (0000-0003-2164-3550, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author), Stonegarden Grindlife (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-31 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Diaspora (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-8184 • E-ISSN: 1943-8192 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19438192.2016.1199503 |
| OpenAlex | W2468251076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper focuses on the deracialisation strategies of South Asian American candidates for elected office. We argue that there is a distinct pattern among these candidates in terms of the type of representation they embody, as well as their personal choices including using non-ethnic nicknames in their campaign materials. These nicknames assist voters, especially in low-information elections, by signalling the ethnicity of candidates – or the lack thereof. Using data collected by the authors from 1956 to the present – the first such attempt to create a national database of South Asian American candidates – we employ a logistic regression to examine the effect of using a non-ethnic nickname on the likelihood of attaining electoral success. Our findings suggest that candidates who used a non-ethnic nickname were at least 25% more likely to win an election. This effect increased as we moved from local to federal contests
Geography · Political science · Politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society
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New Roots in America's Sacred Ground
Negotiating Ethnicity
The Race Card
Implicit Discrimination
Electoral and Biracial Coalition
Bringing Candidacies in from the Cold
Asian Americans and Politics
Identity and Admission into the Political Game
Gender, Ethnicity, and Ballot Information
Deracialization and Latino Politics
The Limitations of the Deracialization Concept in the 2001 Los Angeles Mayoral Election
Race and Gender Cues in Low-Information Elections
Take One for the Team? Limits of Shared Ethnicity and Candidate Preferences
Minority Candidates, Alternative Media, and Multiethnic America
Asian Pacific-American Campaigns, Elections, and Elected Officials
When White Voters Evaluate Black Candidates
Gender Stereotypes and the Perception of Male and Female Candidates
Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators
Black Candidates, White Voters
Necropolitics
White masks/Muslim names
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |