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The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after
the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the
1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting
millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's
nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one
hundred years later, the pent-up anger of white Americans left
behind by a changing economy has once again directed itself at
immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential
election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing
backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism
to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans
in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was
increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor.
Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a
message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural
resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of
the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show
how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of
circumstances. White Americans' experience of declining privilege
and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that
overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing
offers a rigorous and lucid explanation for a recurrent phenomenon
in American history, with important lessons about the origins of
our alarming political climate.
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after
the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the
1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting
millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's
nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one
hundred years later, the pent-up anger of white Americans left
behind by a changing economy has once again directed itself at
immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential
election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing
backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism
to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans
in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was
increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor.
Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a
message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural
resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of
the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show
how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of
circumstances. White Americans' experience of declining privilege
and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that
overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing
offers a rigorous and lucid explanation for a recurrent phenomenon
in American history, with important lessons about the origins of
our alarming political climate.
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