{"id":109314,"date":"2016-10-31T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109314"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T23:13:11","slug":"the-rise-of-white-identity-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109314","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of White Identity Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment<\/a>: “The project of \u201cgetting race out of American politics\u201d means non-whites and Jews acting in their own ethnic interests, while whites behave like docile cows being prodded towards the slaughterhouse.”<\/p>\n

Two academics write in The New Republic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a study of white Americans\u2019 attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump\u2019s success reflects the rise of \u201cwhite identity politics\u201d\u2014an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial prejudice refers to animosity toward other racial groups, white identity reflects a sense of connection to fellow white Americans.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not the first to tie Trump\u2019s candidacy to white identity politics. But our data provide some of the clearest evidence that ongoing demographic changes in the United States are increasing white racial identity. White identity, in turn, is pushing white Americans to support Trump.<\/p>\n

When we talk about white identity, we\u2019re not referring to the alt-right fringe, the white nationalist movement or others who espouse racist beliefs. Rather, we\u2019re talking about everyday white Americans who, perhaps for the first time, are racially conscious.<\/p>\n

The concept of \u201cgarden variety\u201d white racial identity stands in contrast to conventional wisdom. In the last three decades of scholarship on whiteness as a race, the prevailing view has been that most whites fail to notice their own whiteness. In a society dominated by white people, whiteness simply fades into the background. Just as fish fail to notice the water around them, whites are unlikely to think about how they are members of a distinct group.<\/p>\n

Our research shows that the era of \u201cwhite invisibility\u201d is coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become a minority in the year 2044. This increasing diversity across the country is making whites\u2019 own race harder and harder to ignore. Political and social phenomena, from Barack Obama\u2019s presidency to the Black Lives Matter movement, are making whiteness even more salient to white Americans…<\/p>\n

Recent research in social psychology suggests that when whites engage in discrimination based on their perceived collective interests, it\u2019s hard to convince them that such discrimination is wrong. After all, doesn\u2019t every group have a right to prioritize its own members? We believe our results portend increasing difficulty in achieving the democratic aim of getting race out of American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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