William H Westermeyer

Back to America

Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Back to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781496208439
• ISBN-10: 1496208439
• Artikelnr.: 55486032

Autorenporträt

William H. Westermeyer is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Aiken.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Tea Party Movement as Cultural Politics
1. Patriots: Fashioning a Figured World of Tea Party Politics
2. Troubles: Making Personal Meaning in the Tea Party Movement
3. Plantation Politics: Race in the Figured World of the Tea Party
4. Fellowship: Local Tea Party Groups as Communities of Political Practice
5. Trickle-Up Politics: Local Tea Party Groups as Movement Actors in Local
Politics
Conclusion: Political Anthropology of U.S. Right-Wing Politics
Notes
References
Index