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Dog whistle politics : how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class /
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving ""welfare queens"" and ""strapping young bucks"" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, becaus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving ""welfare queens"" and ""strapping young bucks"" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he tapped into a long political tradition that started with George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and is more relevant than ever in the age of the Tea Party and the first black president. In Dog Whistle |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199964284 0199964289 1306094690 9781306094696 9780199967506 0199967504 |