What could be more purgative, more exhilaratingly American to the MAGA base than avenging the nation with racial warfare?
KCRW’s PRESS PLAY WITH MADELEINE BRAND interviews Joe Lowndes about the former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the Capitol insurrection — the harshest penalty yet related to that attack. Listen to the show
The “Greater Idaho” movement is on a longshot quest to supersize Idaho by absorbing more than a dozen eastern Oregon counties — a big chunk of Oregon’s territory.
Daniel Martinez HoSang and I have a new piece up at The New Republic analyze surprising wins by Trump-supported Black and Latino/a candidates in the midterms, and what this emergent shift means for both parties.
For the anniversary of the January 6 riot, I spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee about Black participation in the events of that day, and of multiculturalism on the far right more generally – a subject that Daniel Martinez HoSang and I explored in our book Producers, Parasites Patriots. Listen here!
A few weeks ago, Daniel Martinez HoSang and I were asked by the University of Minnesota Press to reflect on the contemporary landscape of US politics in light of recent attacks on the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory. In this podcast we talk about reactionary threats from the right, but also some limitations with
Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today’s American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican Party and to the neoliberal imperial Center? What does that mean for the Left? Read Corey Robin’s smart and short piece on impeachment jacobinmag.com/2021/01/corey-robin-what-impeachment-could-mean-trump Listen to Dan’s interview with
I appear in James Ross Gardner’s article for the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-the-coronavirus-exacerbated-oregons-bitter-political-divide
Trump’s attacks on the impeachment process and Minnesota’s Somali-refugee community are an appeal to America’s far-right militia movement, say professors Joe Lowndes and Gerald Horne.
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
“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
“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