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Antoine Banks is Professor and Department Chair of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research interests include racial and ethnic politics, emotions, political psychology, and public opinion. His first book, Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America, published by Cambridge University Press, explores the link between emotions and racial attitudes and the consequences it has for political preferences. His forthcoming book (co-authored with Ismail White), The Anger Rule: Racial Inequality and Constraints on Black Politicians, published by Cambridge University Press, examines how Black politicians penalized for publicly expressing anger contributes to racial inequality sustaining itself in the US.

Eric Groenendyk is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2009. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Communication Studies with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 2001. Before arriving at Stony Brook, he was Dunavant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. His first book, Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind: How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Party Identification and Democracy, published by Oxford University Press, reconciles the two dominant theories of party identification by demonstrating the influence of competing motives.