The Politics of the Multiracial Right

A public symposium on Friday, September 20th, 2024.

Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, Yale University. Register in advance here.

This public symposium brings together leading journalists, scholars, and other commentators to examine the shifting dynamics of race in conservative political formations.

In the Los Angeles suburbs a ‘Filipinos for Trump’ rally attracts hundreds. On the south side of Chicago, Black conservative activists open the “Booker T Washington and Ida B Wells Renaissance Center” to recruit new voters for the local GOP. Conservative groups like the Koch Brothers pour millions into programs to train and recruit Latinos while the Proud Boys draw growing numbers of men of color into their leadership. A new wave of Black and Latino candidates win election to Congress across the country, some running as proud MAGA champions. Polls now point to growing support for the Trump campaign among many voters of color.  

These trends have unfolded even as the GOP has moved sharply rightward on a wide range of racialized policy issues, including affirmative action, voting rights, immigration, public safety, housing, and reproductive justice.

How do we make sense of this paradox and rapidly changing terrain? And what does it portend for the future of politics and social movements in the US and beyond?

Join us at The Politics of the Multiracial Right Symposium on Friday September 20, 2024 at Yale University as we address these pressing questions. The Symposium will anticipate and extend many of the themes explored in a new edited volume, The Politics of the Multiracial Right, co-edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes, forthcoming from NYU Press in 2025.

  • Race and the diasporic and global right

  • Gender, culture, and the multiracial right

  • Electoral, candidates, campaigns, and the multiracial right

  • Young people, intergenerational organizing, and the multiracial right


Symposium organized by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Joseph Lowndes, Minali Aggarwal, and Micah English.

Funding provided by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and
the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM).