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The Wrongs of the Right
Matthew W. Hughey
Gregory S. Parks
其他書名
Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama
出版
NYU Press
, 2016-05-03
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
Political Science / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties
Political Science / American Government / National
Political Science / American Government / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
1479826790
9781479826797
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RQLMCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new president surrounded by racist stereotypes like watermelons and fried chicken. Despite the utopian proclamations that we now live in a color-blind, postracial country, the grim reality is that implicit racial biases are more entrenched than ever. In Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans. They provide an analysis of the political Right and their opposition to Obama from the vantage point of their rhetoric, a history of the evolution of the two-party system in relation to race, social scientific research on race and political ideology, and how racial fears, coded language, and implicit racism are drawn upon and manipulated by the political Right. Racial meanings are reservoirs rich in political currency, and the Right's replaying of the race card remains a potent resource for othering the first black president in a context rife with Nativism, xenophobia, white racial fatigue, and serious racial inequality. And as Hughey and Parks show, race trumps politics and policies when it comes to political conservatives' hostility toward Obama"--