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America, Politics in America, Races in America

“Had observers better grasped white anxieties unleashed by the growth of America’s nonwhite population and the two-term Presidency of Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 would have come as no surprise”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2020
Twenty years after Myrdal published his report, and five years after King travelled to...
Tagged America, Politics in America, race in America |
America, Politics in America, Races in America

“The point of a race-riot commission…is for the government that appoints it to appear to be doing something, while actually doing nothing”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2020
White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far...
Tagged government commissions, race riot |
Politics in America, Races in America

“The guiding principle in Mr. Trump’s government is to turn the politics of white resentment into the policies of white rage…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2017
If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his...
Tagged Donald Trump, Politics, Politics in America, PResident trump, Trump Administration, Trump PResidency, white resentment |
Anti-Semitism, Races in America

“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 July 2017
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
Tagged anti-semitism, races in America, Racism, White Nationalism, White Nationalists |
Politics in America, Races in America

“If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 January 2017
One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant...
Tagged IDentity Liberalism, liberalism, Politics in America, Presidential Election 2016 |
Music, Races in America

“The charting system was predicated on a segregated market”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2017
Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music—that is, music performed by black...
Tagged African-Americans, Billboard, Music, races in America, rhythm and blues, rock and roll |
Money, Races in America

“Contrary to our popular assumptions about the intent and effect of both the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, they were not intended to, nor did they, provide all poor Americans with equal economic opportunity”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2017
Up through at least the middle of the twentieth century, the government of the...
Tagged African-Americans, GI Bill, races in America, The New Deal |
Politics in America, Races in America

“The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects…but the fixation on diversity in our schools and in the press has produced a generation of liberals and progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups, and indifferent to the task of reaching out to Americans in every walk of life”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2016
The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects. Affirmative action...
Tagged Identity, Politics in America |
Politics in America, Races in America

“…if race becomes an irreducible category in politics, rather than being incorporated into universal claims of justice, it’s a weapon that can be picked up and used by anyone”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 December 2016
I recently spoke with the social scientist Glenn Loury, who teaches at Brown University....
Tagged Identity Politics, Politics in America, races in America |
Politics in America, Races in America

“Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 December 2016
The media’s newfound, almost anthropological, interest in the angry white male reveals as much...
Tagged Identity Politics, Politics in America, Presidential Election 2016, races in America, Whitelash |
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