Racial Narratives and the Development of Trumpism

The Whitewashing of the American Story

Arthur H. Garrison

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781666945270
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

History is storytelling. History is the selection of facts, placed in a specific order, to result in a specific conclusion. It's the choice of facts, the prioritization of facts, and the ignoring of facts, that creates the narrative of history -- the narrative of the American story. The American story is the creation of specific historical events and the meanings that have been applied to them. Since America is defined by ideas and not ethnicity, it matters what narratives of America that Americans accept, support, and defend. White Narratives Matter: The Whitewashing of the American Story and How Racial Narratives Explain the Development of Trumpism uses original speeches and writings of politicians and other social leaders, from Thomas Jefferson to Tucker Carlson to explore how the White social conservative worldviewnarrative of American history developed over the past two centuries. White Narratives Matter explores how this process of fact selection, prioritization, and development of White social conservative rhetoric of the American story has defined American politics and policies, which culminated in the rise of Donald Trump and Trumpism within the American political landscape.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Explaining and Defining White Social Conservative Worldview
• 2 The Founders, Christianity, White Supremacy, and Modern Racial Narratives in the American Story
• 3 The Founders, American Exceptionalism, and the Whitewashing of Racism from the American Story
• 4 Case Study—What Were Douglas and Lincoln Really Debating
• 5 Dr. King and President Lincoln—Case Study in White Social Conservative Historical Whitewashing
• 6 Glenn Beck—Case Study in White Social Conservative Historical Whitewashing
• 7 The 1619 Project and the White Social Conservative Whitewashing of the American Story
• 8 A Non-whitewashed Defense of the Founding Documents—Providing a Counter to the 1776 Commission White Social Conservative Worldview of an American Story
• 9 White Narratives of Black Crime—The Foundations Laid by John Calhoun
• 10 White Social Conservative Worldview Narratives and Fear of Black Crime
• 11 How Criminal Justice Policy Reflects the History of Race: Case Study
• 12 The Rhetoric and Narrative of Justice and the Arc of the Moral Universe
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author