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Identity politics in the United States
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ISBN: 9780745654119 9780745654126 0745654118 0745654126 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

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"In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had been made in a country that, nine years prior, had elected its first Black president. Beyond these racial flashpoints, the increasingly polarized nature of US politics has reignited debates around the meaning of identity, citizenship, and acceptance in America today. In this pioneering book, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean moves beyond the headlines to examine how contemporary controversies emanate from longstanding struggles over power, access, and belonging. Using intersectionality as an organizing framework, she draws on current tensions such as voter suppression, the Me Too movement, the Standing Rock protests, marriage equality, military service, the rise of the Religious Right, protests by professional athletes, and battles over immigration to show how conflicts over group identity are an inescapable feature of American political development. Brown-Dean explores issues of citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and religion to argue that democracy in the United States is built upon the battle of ideas related to how we see ourselves, how we see others, and the mechanisms available to reinforce those distinctions. Identity Politics in the United States will be an essential resource for students and engaged citizens who want to understand the link between historical context, contemporary political challenges, and paths to move toward a stronger democracy." -- Publisher's description.


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Wokisme: La France sera-t-elle contaminée ?
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ISBN: 2268106993 9782268106991 Year: 2022 Publisher: Monaco Editions du Rocher

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Journaliste franco-américaine, Anne Toulouse porte un regard unique sur un phénomène qu'elle observe depuis plus de vingt ans aux États-Unis et qu'elle a vu avec perplexité contaminer la France. Avec une pointe d'humour, l'auteur nous fait vivre les très riches heures du wokisme et de la cancel culture qui imprègnent le quotidien des Américains, mais elle explore aussi leurs racines à travers les vagues successives d'immigration, l'esclavage, la ségrégation et le puritanisme. Les Gaulois réfractaires se plieront-ils à ce mouvement communautariste venu d'outre-Atlantique ? Quel rôle Trump, Biden ou Obama ont-ils joué dans le wokisme et son importation dans la culture française ? Comment les Américains jugent-ils le principe d'intégration et de laïcité français ? L'idéologie woke influencera-t-elle les élections françaises ?


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The great alignment : race, party transformation, and the rise of Donald Trump
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ISBN: 9780300207132 9780300245738 0300207131 0300245734 Year: 2018 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university press,

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Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the political and media elites, he argues, arose and persists because it accurately reflects the state of American society. Here, he goes further: the polarization is unique in modern U.S. history. Today's party divide reflects an unprecedented alignment of many different divides: racial and ethnic, religious, ideological, and geographic. Abramowitz shows how the partisan alignment arose out of the breakup of the old New Deal coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of "negative partisanship"; explains how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is by far a better predictor of support for Donald Trump than any other factor, including economic discontent.


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The securitarian personality : what really motivates Trump's base and why it matters for the post-Trump era
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ISBN: 0190096497 0190096519 9780190096489 0190096500 0190096489 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY: Oxford university press,

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"This book identifies the core motivations of Donald Trump's strongest supporters. Previous research suggests that Trump's followers are authoritarians or even fascists-individuals who are comfortable only when a powerful person is controlling their lives and providing direction and certainty in the process. This book advances and empirically supports the thesis that what Trump's base craves is not authority but rather a specific form of security. The disposition of Trump's strongest supporters leads them to strive for security in the face of threats from members of out groups and they define out-groups broadly to include welfare cheats, unpatriotic athletes, norm violators, non-English speakers, people who subscribe to a non-majority religion, people not of the majority racial group, people who do not follow prevalent national customs, and certainly people from other countries. Fervent Trump supporters' primary purpose in life is to protect themselves, their families, and their larger cultural group from these outsider threats. A similar motivation is present in subpopulations around the world as can be seen in the Brexit vote in the U.K as well as the success of nativist candidates around the globe. By detailing these desires, this book makes it possible to understand a political movement that many people find baffling and frustrating, which in turn could make it easier for Trump's base and those who stridently oppose Trump to communicate with each other"--

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