{"id":105231,"date":"2016-09-02T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105231"},"modified":"2016-09-02T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:58:16","slug":"a-berkeley-sociologist-made-some-tea-party-friends-and-wrote-a-condescending-book-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105231","title":{"rendered":"A Berkeley sociologist made some tea party friends \u2014 and wrote a condescending book about them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Lozada writes for the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Review of “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” by Arlie Russell Hochschild<\/p>\n

Hochschild made 10 trips to southwestern Louisiana from 2011 to 2016, extended forays away from her perch at the University of California at Berkeley, to delve into her \u201ckeen interest in how life feels to people on the right \u2014 that is, in the emotion that underlies politics. To understand their emotions,\u201d she writes, \u201cI had to imagine myself in their shoes.\u201d She interviewed some 60 people, including 40 professed tea party supporters, visiting their homes, communities and workplaces. It is the same technique Hochschild employed in \u201cThe Second Shift\u201d (1989), a well-reviewed look at how couples manage duties at home when both work outside of it. In this case, however, Hochschild arrives with so many preconceived ideas that they undercut the insight she claims to desire.<\/p>\n

Hochschild preps for her conservative immersion by reading \u201cAtlas Shrugged,\u201d because we know tea party types are into that. \u201cIf Ayn Rand appealed to them, I imagined, they\u2019d probably be pretty selfish, tough, cold people, and I prepared for the worst,\u201d this acclaimed sociologist writes. \u201cBut I was thankful to discover many warm, open people who were deeply charitable to those around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she lands in Louisiana, Hochschild realizes, \u201cI was definitely not in Berkeley, California. .\u2009.\u2009. No New York Times at the newsstand, almost no organic produce in grocery stores or farmers\u2019 markets, no foreign films in movie houses, few small cars, fewer petite sizes in clothing stores, fewer pedestrians speaking foreign languages into cell phones \u2014 indeed, fewer pedestrians. There were fewer yellow Labradors and more pit bulls and bulldogs. Forget bicycle lanes, color-coded recycling bins, or solar panels on roofs. In some cafes, virtually everything on the menu was fried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dear God, no yellow Labs or solar panels? How do you live?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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