Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
Contents:
The unexpected president: the 2016 Trump election and white evangelical support -- Deep cultural background on racial inequality: slavery and territorial expansion in early America -- Racialized power and constraints of freedom after slavery: failure of Reconstruction -- A "True American" identity: immigration and the restriction of citizenship -- Business-friendly evangelicalism: theological turn of mid-Twentieth-Century christianity -- The establishment of free-market conservatism: religious imperatives of Reagan-era economics -- Reactionary politics of the Tea Party: Barack Obama and his critics -- Increased concentration of elite wealth through asset growth: the 2007 market collapse and the rule of finance -- Identity politics and evangelical support: Trump's white christian nationalism -- Conclusion: ethnoreligious structures of inequality in the Trump presidency.
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