Gerardo Martí

American Blindspot

Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency

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Produktbeschreibung

American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency is a careful exploration of the forces that led to the election of the 45th president of the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781538116098
• ISBN-10: 153811609X
• Artikelnr.: 57163544

Autorenporträt

Gerardo Martí is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. Active in several research collaborations, he publishes broadly on religion and social change. His book, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Unexpected President: The 2016 Trump Election and White
Evangelical Support
Chapter 2: Deep Cultural Background on Racial Inequality: Slavery and
Territorial Expansion in Early America
Chapter 3: Racialized Power and Constraints of Freedom after Slavery:
Failure of Reconstruction
Chapter 4: A "True American" Identity: Immigration and the Restriction of
Citizenship
Chapter 5: Business-Friendly Evangelicalism: Theological Turn of
Mid-Twentieth-Century Christianity
Chapter 6: The Establishment of Free-Market Conservatism: Religious
Imperatives of Regan-Era Economics
Chapter 7: Reactionary Politics of the Tea Party: Barack Obama and His
Critics
Chapter 8: Increased Concentration of Elite Wealth through Asset Growth:
The 2007 Market Collapse and the Rule of Finance
Chapter 9: Identity Politics and Evangelical Support: Trump's White
Christian Nationalism
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Ethnoreligious Structures of Inequality in the
Trump Presidency
Notes
Bibliography