Riptides: How the Spread of Racial Policies Fuels Volatility in American States

Author/Contributor(s):	Peay, Periloux C
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	06/10/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Riptides expands our understanding of how state-level policymaking contributes to the perpetual state of racial volatility in America by offering a framework to examine racialized policy diffusion. This book uses a novel social network analysis approach to map and analyze the spread of racially progressive and regressive policies from state to state to capture the political, social, and racial dynamics that inform and motivate racialized policy innovation and diffusion processes since the Civil Rights Movement.