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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Haney-Lopez |
| ISBN: | 9780190229252 019022925X 9780199964277 0199964270 |
| OCLC Number: | 908967433 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2014. |
| Description: | xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Preface: Learning about racism at Harvard Law -- Introduction: Racial politics and the middle class -- The GOP's rise as "the white man's party" -- Beyond hate: Strategic racism -- The wrecking begins: Reagan -- The false allure of colorblindness -- Shifting the tune: Clinton and W. -- Getting away with racism -- Makers and takers: The Tea Party and Romney -- What's the matter with white voters? Commonsense racism -- Obama's post-racial strategy -- Conclusion: To end dog whistle politics. |
| Responsibility: | Ian Haney Lopez. |
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compelling narrative ... Haney Lopez contributes some useful new conceptual tools for the practical understanding of modern racial politics. * Randall Calvert, The Common Reader * Hes broken the code on the racist politics of the last 50 years, as politicians mastered the use of dog whistles to turn Americans against each other while turning America over to plutocrats. * Bill Moyers, Book of the year 2014, Moyers and Company * 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 toblame. No, as Haney Lopez 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. * Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow * Read this book to understand how dog whistle politics enables the wealth gap to stay the same and even to get worse not just for blacks or other people of color but for the white working class as well. As Haney Lopez demonstrates, the vocabulary of race has changed. Nonetheless, race is still skillfully used to distract our attention from ongoing and pernicious disparities in economic opportunities. * Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor, Harvard Law School, and author of The Miner's Canary * A brilliant guide to modern politics, for anyone who wants to understand how outright racist appeals morphed into the genteel rhetoric of 'states rights' and from there into today's 'defund Obamacare' * and why Democrats too often collude in rather than repudiate dog whistle politics. * Grounded in history rather than theory, this is recommended to readers engaged in today's political discourse. * Library Journal * Read more...

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- Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
- Post-racialism -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 21st century.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- Communication in politics.
- Politics and government.
- Post-racialism.
- Race relations -- Political aspects.
- Racism -- Political aspects.
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