Group Consciousness and Political Participation among Latinos

Comparative Politics
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In her article, Atiya Stokes aims at identifying whether group consciousness contributes to political participation among Latinos in the United States (U.S.). The author notes that despite Latinos becoming America's largest minority group today, there is still little research into group consciousness among these people and how it affects their political participation. Most of the research on group consciousness and political participation in the U.S. focuses on African Americans. Therefore, to understand how America's largest minority group today participates in the country's politics, the author formulates the hypothesis that group consciousness affects political participation among Latinos.
Stokes notes that, unlike African Americans, Latinos are not as unified. Various facto...