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Race and the Origins of American Neoliberalism (Paperback)
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Race and the Origins of American Neoliberalism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
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Why did the United States forsake its support for public works
projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes
for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit
businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this
question is race. This book argues that the white response to the
black civil rights movement in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s
inadvertently created the conditions for emergence of American
neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the result of an unlikely alliance
of an elite liberal business class and local segregationists that
sought to preserve white privilege in the civil rights era. The
white response drew from a language of neoliberalism, as they
turned inward to redefine what it meant to be a good white citizen.
The language of neoliberalism depoliticized class tensions by
getting whites to identify as white first, and as part of a social
class second. This book explores the four pillars of neoliberal
policy, austerity, privatization, deregulation, and tax cuts, and
explains how race created the pretext for the activation of
neoliberal policy. Neoliberalism is not about free markets. It is
about controlling the state to protect elite white economic
privileges.
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