Dog Whistle Politics

Strategic Racism, Fake Populism, and the Dividing of America, Expanded and Fully Revised Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Initially published in 2013, Ian Haney-López's Dog Whistle Politics offered a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. As he showed, such appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote in favor of corporations and the rich. Rejecting any simple story of malevolent and obvious racism, Haney-López linked the two central themes that dominate American politics today: the decline of the middle class and the Republican Party's increasing reliance on white voters. The book proved to be remarkably prescient. Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was built almost entirely around dog whistle politics, and he won the presidency because of it. This new edition of Dog Whistle Politics updates the book by a substantial new chapter on Trump that examines his appeal and places his campaign in the historical context that the first edition of Dog Whistle Politics so perceptively uncovered.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-28
Mått156 x 235 x 3 mm
Vikt3 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190841805

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Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. An incisive voice on white identity since the publication of his path-breaking book White by Law (1996), he remains at the forefront of conversations about race in modern America. A past visiting professor at Yale and Harvard law schools, in 2011 he was awarded the Alphonse Fletcher Fellowship, given to scholars whose work promotes the integration goals of Brown v. Board of Education.

Preface Learning about Racism at Harvard Law School Introduction Racial Politics and the Middle ClassChapter One The Southern Strategy and the GOP's Rise as the White Man's PartyChapter Two Beyond Hate: Strategic RacismChapter Three The Wrecking Begins: Ronald ReaganChapter Four Colorblindness and Whites as Racial Victims Chapter Five Updating the Whistle: Clinton and W.Chapter Six How Conservatives Get Away with RacismChapter Seven Makers and Takers Chapter Eight What's the Matter with White Voters? Chapter Nine Obama's Post-Racial Strategy Conclusion To End Dog Whistle Politics

This is one of those books that should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is struggling to understand how and why political elites succeed, time and again, in persuading poor and working class whites to support regressive policies that are a boon for corporations but actually harm them and wreck the middle class. The answer to the riddle has far more to do with race than most want to acknowledge. But it isn't old-fashioned, malevolent racism that's to blame. No, as Haney López brilliantly and painstakingly lays bare, what is unraveling our nation is not bad people, but a stubborn refusal to deal openly and honestly with the reality of how race operates today.