The Black Panthers
BBC Radio

Black Panthers

Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for more recent black insurgency in America. Listen to the episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07x12m5

From Silent Majority to White-Hot Rage: Observations from Cleveland
CounterPunch

From Silent Majority to White-Hot Rage: Observations from Cleveland

By Joe Lowndes The 2016 Republican National Convention began in the immediate shadow of a highly publicized death spiral involving police and black civilians in Dallas, Falcon Heights, and Baton Rouge. Against this backdrop, the Trump campaign seemed to choose the legacy of Richard Nixon rather than Ronald Reagan as the party’s patron saint. Indeed, … Read more

Are Race and Class Struggles Separate?
Shift by MSNBC

Shift by MSNBC, Joe Lowndes

Dorian Warren talks with the New Republic’s Jamil Smith, Demos’ Matt Bruenig and political scientist Joe Lowndes about Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter and the 2016 race. Watch here: https://www.msnbc.com/nerding-out/watch/are-race-and-class-struggles-separate–490144323950

Republicans say goodbye to the Confederate flag–and hello to a new strategy
The Washington Post

A confederate flag with a handmade sign that says take Ii down.

By Joe Lowndes When South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds this week, it signaled a political change. For the last half-century, the GOP’s Southern Strategy has steadily moved a majority of white southern voters into the Republican column. In keeping with that strategy, … Read more

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

Race and American Political Development by Joe Lowndes

“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

From the New Deal to the New Right

“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