Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
- Publisher's listprice GBP 11.99
-
5 728 Ft (5 455 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 573 Ft off)
- Discounted price 5 155 Ft (4 910 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
5 728 Ft
Availability
Out of print
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 April 2015
- ISBN 9780190229252
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 234x158x19 mm
- Weight 392 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
An eye-opening account of how racial appeals generate broad enthusiasm for policies that injure the middle class
MoreLong description:
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 Politics, Ian Haney López offers a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. Dog whistle appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect the heartland against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote to slash taxes for the
rich, give corporations regulatory control over industry and financial markets, and aggressively curtail social services. White voters, convinced by powerful interests that minorities are their true enemies, fail to see the connection between the political agendas they support and the surging wealth inequality that
takes an increasing toll on their lives. The tactic continues at full force, with the Republican Party using racial provocations to drum up enthusiasm for weakening unions and public pensions, defunding public schools, and opposing health care reform.
Rejecting any simple story of malevolent and obvious racism, Haney López links as never before the two central themes that dominate American politics today: the decline of the middle class and the Republican Party's increasing reliance on white voters. Dog Whistle Politics will generate a lively and much-needed debate about racial politics has destabilized the American middle class ? white and nonwhite members alike.
compelling narrative ... Haney López contributes some useful new conceptual tools for the practical understanding of modern racial politics.
Table of Contents:
Preface Learning about Racism at Harvard Law School
Introduction Racial Politics and the Middle Class
Chapter One The Southern Strategy and the GOP's Rise as the White Man's Party
Chapter Two Beyond Hate: Strategic Racism
Chapter Three The Wrecking Begins: Ronald Reagan
Chapter Four Colorblindness and Whites as Racial Victims
Chapter Five Updating the Whistle: Clinton and W.
Chapter Six How Conservatives Get Away with Racism
Chapter Seven Makers and Takers
Chapter Eight What's the Matter with White Voters?
Chapter Nine Obama's Post-Racial Strategy
Conclusion To End Dog Whistle Politics
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
5 728 HUF
5 155 HUF
Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?
8 116 HUF
7 305 HUF
