White backlash : immigration, race, and American politics

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Label

White backlash : immigration, race, and American politics

Title remainder

immigration, race, and American politics

Statement of responsibility

Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal

Creator

• Abrajano, Marisa, 1977-

Contributor

• Hajnal, Zoltan, 1968-

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | General
• Political participation
• Political participation -- United States
• Race
• Race
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration
• Voting
• Voting -- United States
• États-Unis -- Émigration et immigration
• Emigration and immigration

Language

eng

Summary

"White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party. Abrajano and Hajnal demonstrate that this political backlash has disquieting implications for the future of race relations in America. White Americans' concerns about Latinos and immigration have led to support for policies that are less generous and more punitive and that conflict with the preferences of much of the immigrant population. America's growing racial and ethnic diversity is leading to a greater racial divide in politics. As whites move to the right of the political spectrum, racial and ethnic minorities generally support the left. Racial divisions in partisanship and voting, as the authors indicate, now outweigh divisions by class, age, gender, and other demographic measures. White Backlash raises critical questions and concerns about how political beliefs and future elections will change the fate of America's immigrants and minorities, and their relationship with the rest of the nation"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

324.089/00973

Index

index present

LC call number

JK1967

LC item number

.A57 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography