Abstract
Recent literature in race, ethnicity, and politics has assessed how minority linked fate, defined as “the idea that ethnoracial minorities might share a sense of commonality that extends beyond their particular ethnoracial group to other ethnoracial groups (Gershon et al., in Politics Groups Identities 7(3):642–653, 2019),” shapes attitudes toward descriptive representation and support for coalition building. However, scholarship has yet to examine the influence of minority linked fate on political participation. We argue that similar to those who view the interests of co-ethnics as a proxy for their individual interests, Latina/os, Asian Americans, and African Americans who express linked fate with a more expansive minority community are more likely to take political action. This political participation results from senses of obligation to and solidarity with other racial minorities outside of their own. Results from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey show that controlling for conventional measures of linked fate, minority linked fate is associated primarily with more system-challenging modes of political activity for Latina/os, Asian Americans, and African Americans. We conclude by positioning minority linked fate as a complementary heuristic to traditional notions of intra-racial linked fate and note how shared inter-racial linked fate informs our understanding of recent political activism among people of color.
Highlights
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized racial minorities to come together out of a sense of solidarity
Moving scholarship in identity and political behavior forward, we ask: What impact does a sense of inter-racial minority linked fate have on the political participation of Latina/o, Asian Americans, and African Americans? How do such perceptions of across-group linked fate motivate more political action among people of color? we review the literature on intra-racial linked fate and theorize about minority linked fate as a complementary group-based resource for political behavior among marginalized groups
We present evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS), showing that Latina/os, Asian Americans, and African Americans who hold a stronger sense of minority linked fate are more likely to participate in politics, system-challenging modes of political action
Summary
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized racial minorities to come together out of a sense of solidarity. Inter-group solidarity across minority groups is not a new development. In the 1960s and 1970s, Latina/o, Asian, and African Americans led social movements articulating their demands on the political system in terms of solidarity with one another, expressing a shared experience as “people of color” (Pan, 2020; Perez, 2020). Individual racial groups have supported one another from a sense of interconnectedness that sees their individual group’s struggle as related to the challenges of other racial minorities
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