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Zusatztext The New Minority is an important contribution to postelection and post-Brexit analyses and to literature on the social and political effects of economic restructuring more broadly. Informationen zum Autor Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. Klappentext It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump. Answers to the question of how to rebuild centrist coalitions in both the U.S. and U.K. have become increasingly elusive. How did a group of people synonymous with Middle Britain and Middle America drift to the ends of the political spectrum? What drives their emerging radicalism? And what could possibly lead a group with such enduring numerical power to, in many instances, consider themselves a "minority" in the countries they once defined? In The New Minority, Justin Gest speaks to people living in once thriving working class cities--Youngstown, Ohio and Dagenham, England--to arrive at a nuanced understanding of their political attitudes and behaviors. In this daring and compelling book, he makes the case that tension between the vestiges of white working class power and its perceived loss have produced the unique phenomenon of white working class radicalization. Zusammenfassung In this daring and insightful book, Justin Gest studies white working class people's attitudes and political behavior in the United States and Britain. Based on ethnographies and original surveys, the book offers a rich, nuanced and generalizable account of the marginality sensed by one of society's most misunderstood groups. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Marginality in the Post-Traumatic City Chapter 2 The New Minority: A Counter-narrative and its Politics Chapter 3 Peripheral Visions: The Politics of Displacement in East London Chapter 4 After the Fall: The Politics of Insecurity in Youngstown, Ohio Chapter 5 Institutions: Structures of a Crumbling Polity Chapter 6 Identities: Prisms of Culture and Class Chapter 7 Deprivations: Alternative Understandings of Social Hierarchy Chapter 8 Measuring Marginality: American and British Support for the Radical Right Chapter 9 The Untouchables: Who Can Appeal to the White Working Class? Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Regression Tables Appendix C: Interview Topic Guide Notes Works Cited Index ...
