Princeton University

Specialization:

American Political Development, Law and Courts, Race and Civil Rights, Political Parties and Movements, Electoral Law, Labor, State Theory

Paul Frymer writes and teaches about democratic representation in the United States with particular interests in the historical place of political institutions such as courts and parties in responding to racial and class inequality. He is the author of Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party; and Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America, as well as articles on topics ranging from race theory and affirmative action, to lawyers and workplace discrimination, to electoral politics and social movements.

Ph.D. Yale University, J.D. University of California, Berkeley

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