Interdisciplinary Research in the
Social Sciences and Humanities
Latinx Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
Chochenyo Ohlone Unceded Land
RESEARCH AT THE INTERSECTION OF PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS
WITH A FOCUS IN THE AMERICAN HEMISPHERE
Primary Stress
Democratic Narratives, Identity, and Audience in 2020
By Isabella de Bruin
Final Project: An essay (36 pgs) entitled, “Primary Stress: Democratic Narratives, Identity, and Audience 2020,” along with a podcast episode. The essay critiques the 2020 primary elections as a spectacle of national political theater that produces an anti-democratic paradox of polarization and disenchantment. The essay suggests that “unifying narratives that address the paradoxes of American democrxy are needed to reverse the damage.”
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