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The Wrongs of the Right - Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama (Hardcover)
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The Wrongs of the Right - Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama (Hardcover)
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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.
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