White Identity Politics

Amidst discontent over diversity, racial identity is a lens through which many US white Americans now view the political world.

List of contents

1. The new American minority; 2. Making the invisible visible; 3. The measurement and meaning of group ties; 4. Who identifies as white?; 5. The content and contours of whiteness; 6. The preservation of whiteness; 7. Policies that protect the group; 8. A black man in the White House; 9. The future of white America.

About the author

Ashley Jardina is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. She studies the nature of racial attitudes and group identities and their influence on public opinion and political behavior. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

Summary

This book is for people who want to understand emerging patterns of white identity and collective political behavior in an increasingly diverse America. Drawing on robust evidence, Jardina shows that many whites possess an activated racial identity and support policies and candidates they see as protecting whites' power and status.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Jardina, Ashley (Duke University Jardina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108475525
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47552-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Public Op; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology; Cambridge Studies in Public Op
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Ethnic Studies, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political activism, United States of America, USA, Political ideologies and movements, Political activism / Political engagement