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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: Understanding Black Politics: Faith, Representation, and Black Political Voices
Description: Political scientist Andra Gillespie (Emory University) discusses the significance of black politics in 2020, including the need to fix disproportional representation, ideological sorting in party politics, the experience and salience of racial identity as a grounding factor for black political engagement, pursuing justice through the political process, and bringing political science to bear on lives of faith. Show NotesDisproportional representation of African-Americans in CongressIdeological Sorting, Partisanship, and Race“Welcome to America’s Freedom Church”: How Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of MLK’s Ebenezer Baptist Church is leading the Georgia U.S. Senate racePursuing Justice in the Polit...