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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haney-López, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: learning about racism at Harvard Law
  • Introduction: racial politics and the middle class
  • The GOP's rise as "the white man's party"
  • 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?
  • Obama's post-racial strategy
  • Conclusion to end dog whistle politics.