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Author Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)

Title The wrongs of the right : language, race, and the Republican Party in the age of Obama / Matthew W. Hughey, Gregory S. Parks
Published New York : NYU Press, 2014

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Contents The Grand Old Party and African Americans: a brief historical overview -- Unsweet tea and labor pains: the Tea Party, birthers, and Obama -- A fox in the idiot box: right-wing talking heads -- Political party, campaign strategy, and racial messaging -- The social science of political ideology and racial attitudes -- Unconscious race bias and the right: its meaning for law in the age of Obama
Summary "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new president surrounded by racist stereotypes like watermelons and fried chicken. Despite the utopian proclamations that we are now live in a color-blind, postracial country, the grim reality is that implicit racial biases are more entrenched than ever. In Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans. They provide an analysis of the political Right and their opposition to Obama from the vantage point of their rhetoric, a history of the evolution of the two-party system in relation to race, social scientific research on race and political ideology, and how racial fears, coded language, and implicit racism are drawn upon and manipulated by the political Right. Racial meanings are reservoirs rich in political currency, and the Right's replaying of the race card remains a potent resource for othering the first black president in a context rife with Nativism, xenophobia, white racial fatigue, and serious racial inequality. And as Hughey and Parks show, race trumps politics and policies when it comes to political conservatives' hostility toward Obama"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
Print version record
Subject Obama, Barack.
SUBJECT Obama, Barack fast
Obama, Barack 1961- gnd
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
SUBJECT Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast
Republican Party USA gnd
Subject Right and left (Political science) -- United States
Conservatism -- United States
Tea Party movement.
Political culture -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- National.
Derecha (Política)
Izquierda (Política)
Partidos republicanos -- Estados Unidos
Right and left (Political science) -- United States.
Tea Party movement.
Republicanism -- United States.
Conservatism
Political culture
Politics and government
Right and left (Political science)
Tea Party movement
Tea-Party-Bewegung
Rassendiskriminierung
Schwarze
Politische Rede
Politische Kultur
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009003409
Subject Estados Unidos -- Política y gobierno -- 2009-2017
Estados Unidos -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Parks, Gregory, 1974-
ISBN 9780814764756
0814764754