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Davin Phoenix, UC Irvine Irvine political science associate professor, offers reflections.

LaGina Gause is an assistant professor in the political science department at UC San Diego and the author of "The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups"

  >> Audra DS Burch, Amy Harmon, Sabrina Tavernise and Emily Badger, The New York Times  Published: 21 Apr 2021 08:44 AM BdST Updated: 21 Apr 2021 08:44 AM BdST Protesters rally in New York, June 4, 2020. The New York Times George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word-of-mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection shortly after Memorial Day, demanding an end to police violence against Black Americans. "); } The moment of collective grief and anger swiftly gave way to a yearlong, nationwide deliberation on what it mean...

Though the high turnout of minority voters gave Joe Biden the edge in this election, exit polls showed that the majority of white voters favored Trump, exposing a ‘race gap’ in election 2020. While three in five white voters (58%) supported Trump in 2020 like they did in 2016, 42% of white women voted for Trump, alongside Asians (34%), Latinos (32%,) and Black (12%). Among voters of color, over a third of Arab Americans polled preferred Trump because “they felt the Democrat’s support for Arabs was nothing but pandering for votes.” An AAPI survey also found that 48% of Vietnamese Ame...