In The Politics of the Multiracial Right (NYU Press, 2025), contributors chart the complex and contradictory factors that are drawing growing numbers of people of color into conservative formations and politics. Beyond the spectacle of Trump and the 2024 election, a growing number of loosely organized groups of conservatives of color that often operate outside of the Republican Party, building their base through social media and podcasts, rallies, and local issue-based organizing.
Contributors chart diverse sites, ranging from the conservative lifestyle magazine Evie to the recent history of Latinos active on white supremacist websites to the complex relationship between race, hip hop artists, and conservative politics. These timely essays delve deep into the maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes that are transforming the nation’s political landscape.
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes, “Introduction: The Politics of the Multiracial Right”
Section I: “Portraits of the Multi-Racial Right”
Janelle Wong, Aggie Yellow Horse, and Ellen Feng, “A Portrait of Political Conservatism among Black and Non-Black People of Color.”
Anthony Ocampo, “I Went to a ‘Filipinos for Trump’ Rally. Here’s What I Found.”
Sangay Mishra, “Indian Americans, Hindu Nationalism, and Conservative Electoral Orientation.”
Y Thien Nguyen, “Understanding the historical foundations of Vietnamese American Conservatism.”
Cristina Beltrán, “Brown Girl With A Gun: Latina Republicans and Intersectionality on the Right.”
Priscilla Yamin, “’She’s the sister you never had’: Conservative Online Women’s Magazines and the Politics of Race.”
Section II: “The Republican Party and the Shifting Grounds of Race and Racism”
Jamelle Bouie, “From Trump to the Church: Race, Masculinity, and the GOP.”
Micah English and Loren Kajikawa, “Hip-Hop Republicans: Understanding The Politics of Hip-Hop and Conservatism.”
Corey Fields, “The Shifting Face of Black Republicans: Interracial Relations within the GOP and the Platforming of Black Conservative Voices.”
Laura Pulido and Mariana Rivera, “The Libre Initiative: The Koch Brothers Agenda and Latinos.”
Minali Aggarwal, “The Racial Politics of Policing: A Case Study on Minneapolis’s ‘Yes 4 Minneapolis’ Campaign and the Blackening of Conservative Politics.”
April Anson and Bruno Seraphin, “Supremacists Gone Native.”
Section III: “Historical Inheritances and Future Possibilities”
Cecilia Márquez, “Latino/as in the white nationalist forum, Stormfront.”
Debadatta Chakraborty, “Hindutva and Hinduphobia: Transnational authoritarianism, gendered-racialized youth mobilization and nationalist politics of the Indian diaspora in the US.”
Eddie Kim, “Why Reactionary Politics Are Fueling an Asian-American Backlash.”
The Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project, “Feelings Over Facts: The Limits and Possibilities of Challenging Chinese American Conservatism on WeChat.”
Asli Igsiz, William Callison, & Biko Koenig, “Everyone Loves an Underdog: Anti-Racist Racism, Anti-Liberal Liberalism, and Anti-Imperial Imperialism in Turkey, Spain, and the United States.”