#NowOut: Dianne M. Pinderhughes writes that Kim’s introduction of “civic ostracism” and “relative valorization” allowed scholars of race to compare black Americans to other non-white groups. Read "Claire Jean Kim: A Classic Revisited" here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: In Fred Lee's analysis of Bitter Fruit by Claire Jean Kim, he highlights her work as exemplary of how Asian American political thought maps Asian American positionalities within local and regional political orders. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: Jane Junn's article, "The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science", applauds Bitter Fruit as a tour-de-force that pushes scholars to acknowledge the complexity and the importance of a relational methodological approach. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: Michael Javen Fortner argues that Kim’s research uncovers the importance of class and economics, but he suggests she might have pursued these dimensions of power in contemporary urban politics more fully. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: Claire Jean Kim replies to her readers and previews the arguments of her new work, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, which “significantly revises the racial triangulation theory laid out in Bitter Fruit.” Read "Bitter Fruit at Twenty": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: Janelle Wong warns against a thin reading of racial triangulation theory that draws false equivalencies across racial groups and minimizes analyses of institutional anti-black racism. Read the full article here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Read the new Classics Revisited feature from Polity Polity, journal of political science about Claire Jean Kim's Bitter Fruit. This feature gathers six prominent scholars to reflect on the enduring importance of Bitter Fruit from different sub-disciplinary perspectives. ow.ly/oJE650Rh9Lw

#NowOut: Spence discusses how "Bitter Fruit" expanded political science's view on race production. He proposes deeper exploration into race as a political construct rather than solely social, and its ties to violence and political economy. Dive in: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

#NowOut: our #AskaPolitical Scientist for April's issue features a conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism. Read it #Free here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Department of Political Science at UMass Amherst Chicago Journals UChicagoPress

Sebastian argues that Davis’s early work can help to illuminate not just the central antagonism between freedom and state coercion that is the object of abolitionist critique, but the subjective-moral dimension inherent to its political practice. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Check out the press release for Rutledge-Prior's “Vegans and ‘Green-Collared Criminals,’” which addresses the framing of animal rights activism in the media. journals.uchicago.edu/journals/pol/p… Serrin Rutledge-Prior UChicagoPress Chicago Journals

Zachariah Black's new article argues that Hobbes’s Leviathan offers a theory of sovereignty shaped and even limited by the practical and pedagogical work of government. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Discover this Open Access article from Polity. Read "'The People' and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics" now: ow.ly/WRcM50RIUHM Polity, journal of political science

Meyer argues that "anti-populist nostalgia is itself counterproductive because it reinforces a failed approach in which climate politics is reduced to the supposedly objective instructions of experts and technocrats." Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Fred Lee's analysis of Bitter Fruit by Claire Jean Kim highlights her work as exemplary of how Asian American political thought maps Asian American positionalities within local and regional political orders. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Jane Junn's article, "The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science", applauds Bitter Fruit as a tour-de-force that pushes scholars to acknowledge complexity and the importance of a relational methodological approach. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Our Polity, journal of political science account will be going on a summer hiatus but you can expect us to be back in the Fall to share the latest from our forthcoming July issue. In the meantime, stay tuned to Chicago Journals & UChicagoPress