Antoine Banks
Professor and Chair, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Antoine Banks studies racial and ethnic politics, emotions, political psychology, and public opinion. He is the author of Anger and Racial Politics and co-author, with Ismail White, of The Anger Rule, winner of the 2026 David Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award. Both are published by Cambridge University Press.
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan
B.A., Political Science and African American Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
Anger and Racial Politics shows that anger, more than any other negative emotion, is the foundation of contemporary white racial attitudes, and that making whites angry makes race more powerful in shaping their political preferences.
The Anger Rule shows how Black politicians are penalized for publicly expressing anger about racial issues, and how that constraint helps sustain racial inequality in the United States. Winner of the 2026 David Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award.
