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: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9781538116081
• ISBN-10: 1538116081
• Artikelnr.: 57172593

Autorenporträt

Gerardo Martí is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. A prolific and award-winning scholar, his research examines religious innovation and the ways religion shapes racial dynamics and political engagement in the United States.

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