Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
Contents:
Outgroup hostility and the mainstreaming of racism : a strategic response. The changing face of racism : outgroup hostility and racialization in an age of globalization -- The rise of the modern white nationalist movement -- The mainstreaming of the white nationalist movement -- A leader normalizes white extremist rhetoric : Trump 2016 presidential campaign speeches mainstream outgroup hostility -- From tracking to trolling to tribalism : stoking outgroup hostility in a transformed media landscape -- Preying more than pandering : the case of the low-information votes -- The critical role of outgroup hostility in the 2016 election -- How Trump used outgroup hostility to win : mobilizing nonvoters and mainstreaming racists -- Outgroup hostility and the mainstreaming of racism : a strategic response.
Summary:
"This book analyzes data from a variety of sources to understand the mainstreaming of racism today. The book puts this research in a historical context. Today with issues of globalization, immigration and demographic diversification achieving greater public salience, racism is more likely to manifest itself more in the form of a generalized ethnocentrism that expresses "outgroup hostility" toward a diverse set of groups, including Latinos and Muslims as well as African Americans. Both changes in structure and agency have facilitated the mainstreaming of racism today. Changes in the "political opportunity structure," as witnessed by the rise of the Tea Party Movement, facilitated the mainstreaming of white extremists into the Republican Party and lay the basis for an electoral politics focused on giving voice to white people more generally acting on their outgroup hostility. Changes in the political structure were matched by the appearance of a charismatic leader in the person of Donald Trump who made great use of a transformed media landscape to stoke white people's outgroup hostility. Trump won the presidency most strategically deploying his demagoguery to mobilize white non-voters in swing states, with the end result greatly accelerating the mainstreaming racism and placing it at the center of policymaking in the White House. With the extensive empirical evidence provided, this book documents how the mainstreaming of racism today began before Trump started to run for the presidency but then increased under his leadership and it likely to be a troubling presence in U.S. politics for some time to come. The findings provided create the basis for suggestions on how to push racism back to the margins of American politics"-- Provided by publisher.
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