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 |
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.