Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity. By Pérez, Efrén O. . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 232 p. $95.00 cloth, $30.00 paper

“People of color” is often leveraged as a rallying cry, an appeal for political mobilization, and a call for interracial alliances, invoked in the face of racial oppression or simply used to categorize individuals who are nonwhite. [...]far, scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics have yet to grapple with the psychological and theoretical underpinnings of PoC identity for its ingroup members. [...]if the nested hypothesis is true, then a situational context that makes PoC identity salient should diminish differences between each PoC group and increase dissimilarities with the outgroup, in this case, whites. [...]a high level of PoC identification will result in support for policies, initiatives, and attitudes that will benefit specific PoC racial groups (affirmation hypothesis).