Day: March 3, 2023

Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?
The Conversation

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Republicans multiracial right. Joe Lowndes

Article by Joseph Lowndes and Daniel Martinez HoSang Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina. Meanwhile, another presumptive GOP candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has continued his crusade … Read more

Producers Parasites Patriots, Race, and the New Right Wing Politics of Precarity

Producers, Parasites Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity

In exploring the contemporary politics of whiteness, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes offer a powerful analysis of white precarity embedded in an antiracist critique of white supremacy in multicultural times. Producers, Parasites, Patriots is a necessary and welcome work.

— Cristina Beltrán, New York University

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Race and American Political Development by Joe Lowndes

Race and American Political Development

“This important volume places race at the center of political development in America. Leading lights and fresh voices in the field sweep across the history exploring new ways to think about the impact of racial division on the shape of the political order and the dynamics of its change. There is no better introduction to this subject, one of the massive facts of the American experience.”

—Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, Yale University

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From the New Deal to the New Right

From the New Deal to New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

“Evocative and analytical, this historical portrait shows how racial change in the South opened the door to conservative mobilization. Its powerful account of how a cross-regional alliance of white supremacists and business-oriented anti-New Dealers fundamentally reoriented American politics advances our understanding not just of pathways to the present, but of prospects for the future.”

Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White

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