Hard White - The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics (Fording Richard C. (Professor of Political Science Professor of Political Science University of Alabama))(Paperback / softback)

The white nationalist movement in the United States is nothing new. Yet, prior to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, many Americans assumed that it existed only on the fringes of our political system, a dark cultural relic pushed out of the mainstream by the victories of the Civil Rights Movement. The events in Charlottesville made clear that we had underestimated the scale of the white nationalist movement; Donald Trump's reaction to it brought home the reality that the movement had gained political clout in the White House. Yet, as this book argues, the mainstreaming of white nationalism did not begin with Trump, but began during the Obama era. Hard White explains how the mainstreaming of white nationalism occurred, pointing to two major shifts in the movement. First, Barack Obama's presidential tenure, along with increases in minority
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