Dog Whistle Politics How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Name: Dog Whistle Politics How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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ISBN: 9780199964277

ISBN-10: 0199964270

ISBN-13: 9780199964277

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ian Haney Lï¿½pez

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The decades-long increase in income inequality has become perhaps 'the' issue in American politics, and scholars have offered many reasons for why the gap between the rich and the rest has widened so much since the mid-1970s. Most of the explanations have been social and political in the broadest sense, and many have keyed on the propensity of middle- and working class Americans to vote against their own interest. Yet given that the greatest income divide is racial in nature, why have so few looked toward racially motivated behavior as a cause?Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Wrecked the Middle Class is a sweeping account of how 'dog-whistle' racial politics contributed…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144

Ian Haney Lï¿½pez is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics and White by Law , as well as Merge Left (The New Press). He lives in Richmond, California.