White Identity Politics

Auteur

Ashley Jardina is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. She studies the nature of racial attitudes and group identities and their influence on public opinion and political behavior. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

Texte du rabat

Amidst discontent over diversity, racial identity is a lens through which many US white Americans now view the political world.

Résumé
This book is for people who want to understand emerging patterns of white identity and collective political behavior in an increasingly diverse America. Drawing on robust evidence, Jardina shows that many whites possess an activated racial identity and support policies and candidates they see as protecting whites' power and status.

Contenu

1. The new American minority; 2. Making the invisible visible; 3. The measurement and meaning of group ties; 4. Who identifies as white?; 5. The content and contours of whiteness; 6. The preservation of whiteness; 7. Policies that protect the group; 8. A black man in the White House; 9. The future of white America.