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In this book, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics.

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, author of Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

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“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

“This book brilliantly describes the ideology of American conservatism. A richly detailed analysis that helps illuminate the development, rise, and the discursive peculiarities of this political movement.”
— Anne Norton, author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire

“In reconstructing the intellectual, ideological, cultural, and institutional histories of the New Right”s genesis and development, this book challenges many conventional views about the movement.”
—Adolph Reed Jr., author of The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives

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“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

“Race and American Political Development performs an important intellectual and civic service. This collection of rich, discrete studies does not merely “read race into” American political development. It should alter how we think in general of that scholarly field and its purview.”
—Adolph Reed Jr., author of The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives

“Charged with original insights and oriented by a thoughtful introduction, this volume’s essays combine historical imagination with analytical reason to probe American political development from the vantage of race. Learned and challenging, the book provokes thought, sharpens questions, and deepens knowledge.”
—Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White

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

Race and American Political Development

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