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American blindspot : race, class, religion, and the Trump presidency
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- Creator
- Gerardo Martí (Davidson College)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- xii, 319 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1538116103, 153811609X, 1538116081, 9781538116098, 9781538116104, 9781538116081
- OCLC
- on1127940062, on1108513404
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
- The unexpected president: the 2016 Trump election and white evangelical support -- Deep cultural background on racial inequality: slavery and territorial expansion in early America -- Racialized power and constraints of freedom after slavery: failure of Reconstruction -- A "True American" identity: immigration and the restriction of citizenship -- Business-friendly evangelicalism: theological turn of mid-Twentieth-Century christianity -- The establishment of free-market conservatism: religious imperatives of Reagan-era economics -- Reactionary politics of the Tea Party: Barack Obama and his critics -- Increased concentration of elite wealth through asset growth: the 2007 market collapse and the rule of finance -- Identity politics and evangelical support: Trump's white christian nationalism -- Conclusion: ethnoreligious structures of inequality in the Trump presidency
Subjects
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
- Social classes -- Political aspects -- United States.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century.
- United States -- Religion -- 21st century.
- Religion and politics -- United States.
- United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-