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- Title
TORN IN CONTRADICTORY DIRECTIONS: WORKING CLASS AMBIVALENCE AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE IN A CASE-STUDY EXAMPLE.
- Authors
Lundskow, George; Phillips, Brian; Curtiss, Phyllis
- Abstract
We argue that one of the primary issues in the recent Presidential election of 2016 was the rise of a new racialized identity among non-college educated whites. Donald Trump became the Republican nominee based largely on overt racism against Mexicans in particular, and ethnocentrism against Muslims and foreigners more generally. His success legitimated the so-called alt-right, a collection of right-wing racists and assorted invasion conspiracies about non-white and Islamic takeover of the United States. This paper uses a case-study dataset to consider the attitudes of a white working-class non-college population. Results show strongly ambivalent attitudes about race and cultural freedom. We place these findings within the decline of the middle-class in the United States but also within longstanding prejudice and paranoia in American social identity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORKING class; UNITED States presidential election, 2016; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; RACISM; MEXICANS
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2/3, p27
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article