Producers, Parasites, Patriots

Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity

Daniel Martinez HoSang, Joseph E. Lowndes

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781452960333
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
 

The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. 

The authors document the changing politics of race and class in the age of Trump across a broad range of phenomena, showing how new forms of racialization work to alter the economic protections of whiteness while promoting some conservatives of color as models of the neoliberal regime. Through careful analyses of diverse political sites and conflicts—racially charged elections, attacks on public-sector unions, new forms of white precarity, the rise of black and brown political elites, militia uprisings, multiculturalism on the far right—they highlight new, interwoven deployments of race in the ascendant age of inequality. Using the concept of “racial transposition,” the authors demonstrate how racial meanings and signification can be transferred from one group to another to shore up both neoliberalism and racial hierarchy.

From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: The Changing Labor of Race in the New Gilded Age
• 1 “Parasites of Government”: Racialized Anti-statism and White Producerism
• 2 “The Incomprehensible Malice—of Poor White America”: New Racializations of White Precarity
• 3 “One of Our Own”: Black Incorporations into Contemporary Conservative Politics
• 4 “A Brown Brother for Donald Trump”: The Multiculturalism of the Far Right
• 5 State Abandonment and Militia Revolt: White Occupation, Native Land, and Black Lives
• Conclusion: From Racial Transposition to New Visions of Political Identity
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index