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Gest, Justin.
Subjects
Working class -- Political activity -- Great Britain.
Working class -- Political activity -- United States.
Whites -- Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Whites -- United States -- Politics and government.
Whites -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions.
Right-wing extremists -- Great Britain.
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
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Gest, Justin.
Working class -- Political activity -- Great Britain.
Working class -- Political activity -- United States.
Whites -- Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Whites -- United States -- Politics and government.
Whites -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions.
Right-wing extremists -- Great Britain.
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
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The new minority : white working class politics in an age of immigration and inequality / Justin Gest.
by
Gest, Justin.
Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call #:
324.086 G393n
Subjects
Working class
--
Political activity
--
Great
Britain
.
Working class
--
Political activity
--
United States.
Whites
--
Great
Britain
--
Politics and government.
Whites
--
United States
--
Politics and government.
Whites
--
Great
Britain
--
Social conditions.
Whites
--
United States
--
Social conditions.
Right-wing
extremists
--
Great
Britain
.
Right-wing
extremists
--
United States.
ISBN:
9780190632557 (pbk.)
9780190632540 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : political marginality in the post-traumatic city
--
The new minority : a counter-narrative and its politics
--
Peripheral visions : the politics of displacement in East London
--
After the fall : the politics of insecurity in Youngstown, Ohio
--
Institutions : structures of a crumbling polity
--
Identities : prisms of culture and class
--
Deprivations : alternative understandings of social hierarchy
--
Measuring marginality : American and British support for the radical right
--
The untouchables : who can appeal to the white working class?
Summary:
"It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new
right-wing
parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump. Answers to the question of how to rebuild centrist coalitions in both the U.S. and U.K. have become increasingly elusive. How did a group of people synonymous with Middle
Britain
and Middle America drift to the ends of the political spectrum? What drives their emerging radicalism? And what could possibly lead a group with such enduring numerical power to, in many instances, consider themselves a "minority" in the countries they once defined? Justin Gest speaks to people living in once thriving working class cities--Youngstown, Ohio and Dagenham, England--to arrive at a nuanced understanding of their political attitudes and behaviors. He makes the case that tension between the vestiges of white working class power and its perceived loss have produced the unique phenomenon of white working class radicalization. Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also the author of Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West."--Provided by publisher.
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