Resources
There have been a great many essays, podcasts, etc that have covered the effects of the increasing political divide. These are just a few resources that I found really helpful to better understand the issues that both contributed to and are the result of the political divide in our country.
Ross, Loretta. “LORETTA J. ROSS.” LORETTA J. ROSS, https://lorettajross.com/. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
Loretta Ross’ Website has links to the many podcasts she has appeared on (including her TED talk) on the topic of “Don’t call out, call in.” She has a book, Calling In the Calling Out Culture, coming out in 2022.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. The New Press, 2018.
Klein, Ezra. The Ezra Klein Show Podcast. 2021.
Ezra wrote a book, “Why We’re Polarized,” and I listened to many of his podcasts on which he touched on most of the ideas in the book.
The Social Dilemma. Directed by Jeff Orlowski, Netflix, 2020.
Aschwanden, Christie. “Why Hatred and ‘Othering’ of Political Foes Has Spiked to Extreme Levels.” Scientific America, Oct. 2020.
Is that a fact podcast? Perception or Reality: Just How Divided Is America, Really? News Literacy Program, https://newslit.org/podcast/perception-or-reality-just-how-spanided-is-america-really/.
“Pew Research Center.” Pew Research Center, 30 Dec. 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/.
The Pew Research Center has data on all manner of ways to think about the political divide.
The Perception Gap. https://perceptiongap.us/. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
A study that, “explores how Americans tend to have a distorted understanding of people on the other side of the aisle, what causes it, and why it matters.”
Milenko Martinovich. “Americans’ Partisan Identities Are Stronger than Race and Ethnicity, Stanford Scholar Finds.” Standford News, Aug. 2017. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/31/political-party-identities-stronger-race-religion/
Pazzanese, Christina. “Democrats and Republicans Do Live in Different Worlds.” The Harvard Gazzette, Mar. 21AD. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/democrats-and-republicans-live-in-partisan-bubbles-study-finds/
“Listen First Project.” Listen First Project, https://www.listenfirstproject.org/. Accessed 12 Jan. 2022.
Listen First Project is a site that links to 400 different organizations focused on promoting dialogue.