Index
abandonment, 4, 18, 48, 64, 65, 145, 167; economic, 47; long-term, 16; neoliberal, 142; social, 14; state, 144, 149, 166
activism, 161; antiracist, 105; political, 10, 70; racial justice, 11; right-wing, 130
Act 10 (2011), 178n19
advertisements, political, 21, 40–41, 42, 93 (fig.)
affirmative action, 11, 17, 27–28, 82, 88; attacks on, 96, 98
Affordable Care Act, 80
AFP. See Americans for Prosperity
African American Leadership Council, 194n21
African Americans, 7, 29, 56, 71, 159
agricultural subsidies, 48
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 28, 98
Alexander, Michelle, 98
Alexander, M. Jaqui, 35
Alger, Horatio, 89
alt-right, 18, 103, 105, 118, 121; multiculturalism and, 124–28
“America First” rally, 112
American Conservative Union, 73
American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, The (Myrdal), 51
American Enterprise Institute, 63
American Plan, 21
American Renaissance (journal), 110, 125
“Americans All” movement, 201n25
Americans for Prosperity (AFP): case of, 37–38; press coverage for, 38–39; public sector and, 36–37
America’s Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (Teixeira and Rogers), 159
Anderson, Carol, 69
anti-Chinese campaign, 26, 106
anti-discrimination laws, 6, 11, 27, 79, 82, 98
“anti-establishment” crusade, 1
anti-gay ballot measures, 166
anti-immigrant stance, 67, 112, 122, 123, 127
anti-Islam, 106, 107, 123, 125, 127
antiracism, 6, 7, 8, 98–99, 109, 130, 154, 165, 168
anti-statism, 17, 23, 99, 144, 149, 167, 179n33; development of, 27, 28
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (1996), 134, 137
anti-union measures, 22, 39, 40, 41
Associated Press, 86
authoritarianism, 104; far-right, 154–55, 168
Bakke, Allan, 11
Baldwin, James, 12, 50, 57, 109, 151
Bannock War (1878), 141
Bannon, Steve, 111, 155, 163; Judeo-Christian values and, 110; white/economic nationalism and, 105–7
Beda, Steven, 139
“Beholden State: How Public Unions Broke California” (Delonas), 34
Bell, Carole, 93
Bell Curve, The (Herrnstein and Murray), 58
Benson, Lisa: cartoon by, 31, 32 (fig.)
Benton, Thomas Hart, 25
Berlet, Chip, 23
Bevin, Matt, 45
Big White Ghetto, 60
birther movement, 66
Black America, cultural celebration of, 98
Black American Leadership Alliance, 194n21
Black Americans for a Better Future, 106
Black community, 15, 92, 106, 130, 137, 145, 150; disruptions for, 1; self-interests of, 76
Black freedom movement, 2, 20, 99
Black Lives Matter, 104, 111, 129, 132, 148, 155
Black Marxism (Robinson), 13
Blackness, 5, 12, 14, 59, 84, 109, 113; cultural significance of, 99; as ethical subjectivity, 17; incorporation of, 92, 97; political labor of, 15; protean character of, 91–99; symbols of, 124
blackonomics, 93
“Black Particularity Reconsidered” (Telos), 91
Black Power, 94; Black capitalism and, 92–93
Black Power Conference, 92
Black uplift, 76, 89, 91, 92, 95, 156
Black women: disadvantages for, 29; racist portrayals of, 35
“Blue Lives Matter,” 132
Boone, Daniel, 109
Bowling Alone (Putnam), 64
Breitbart, Andrew, 156
Breitbart News, 105, 114, 127, 199n11
Brexit vote, 67
Brooke, Edward, 92
Brooks, David, 16
Brown, David, 69
Brown, Jerry, 20
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 27
Buchanan, Patrick, 126
Bundy, Ammon, 130, 133, 134, 135, 136, 166; on Black Lives Matter, 148; employment sector and, 140; photo of, 140; standoff and, 138, 139, 141
Bundy, Ryan: photo of, 140
Bundy family, 133, 134, 137, 138, 140–41, 146; rallies by, 135–36
Bureau of Land Management, 133, 135, 137, 143–44, 147, 150
Burns Paiute Natural Resources Department, 141
Burns Paiute Tribe, 141
Bush, George H. W., 79, 80, 95, 100
Bush, George W., 100, 159, 188n16; compassionate conservatism and, 96, 97
“Buy American” campaigns, 43
Cain, Herman, 75
Campbell, Carroll, II: 80
Campbell, Carroll, III: 80
Camp of the Saints, The (Raspail), 105
cane cutters, strike by, 200n20
capitalism, 70, 86, 177n12; Black, 92–93; civilization and, 13; consumer-oriented, 92; racism/inequality and, 9; taxonomies of, 10
Carlson, Tucker, 121
Carson, Ben, 75
cartoons: cultural representations in, 30; editorial, 31; political, 30; racist, 33–34; responses to, 30
Case, Anne, 55
Castile, Philando, 86
Cato Institute, 5
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (Edsall and Edsall), 165
Chang, Uncle, 114–15, 117, 121; photo of, 116
Chaplin, Ralph, 25
Chapman, Kyle “Based Stickman,” 103
Charen, Mona, 63
Charleston County Council, 80, 81
Charlottesville, 105, 118, 122, 157
Chicago News Bench, 31
Chicago News Report, 32
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), 31–32
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), 31, 33, 45
Choose Black America, 194n21
Christian, Jeremy, 119
Christian Coalition, 166
Christian Family Research Council, 100
Christie, Chris, 20
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 115
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), 87, 89
citizenship, 155; American, 112; Black, 79, 114
City Journal: racist cartoons in, 33–34
civilization, 110; capitalism and, 13; Western, 125
civil rights, 6, 82, 95, 96, 99, 156, 157; Black, 51; constraints of, 10–12; expansion of, 52, 99; laws, 79; moral perseverance of, 15; norms, 157; protests, 26
civil rights movement, 5, 12, 97, 158, 188n16; impact of, 2; resis-tance to, 6; Tea Party and, 3
class, 111, 114–15, 117, 158, 177n12; coproductions of, 8–10; entitlement, 73; New Gilded Age and, 4–8; race and, 8–10; relations, 8, 67, 76; unity, 164
Clinton, Bill, 52, 97; angry white men and, 159; incarceration and, 111–14; Jordan and, 98; welfare and, 98
Clinton, Hillary, 68, 114, 117
Coalition for the Future American Workers, 194n21
Coast Range Association, 139
collective bargaining, 42, 48, 177n12; attacks on, 62; colonialism, 13; restricting, 20, 41; settler, 109, 134, 168
color-blind ideology, 76, 83, 115, 164
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 (Murray), 58, 63
Commentary, 158
Communist Party, 75
Congressional Black Caucus, 82
Connerly, Ward, 77
conservatism, 3, 5, 21, 76, 84, 159; compassionate, 89, 96, 97; modern, 75, 78
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 73, 74, 84, 89, 101
conservatives, 16, 28, 32, 101; Black, 75, 76, 91, 102; of color, 76, 77, 82; fiscal, 44; free-market, 96; political identity and, 26; small-government, 96; white, 78, 91, 96
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, 135, 196n8
Cooper, James Fenimore, 109
Cosby, Bill, 85
CPAC. See Conservative Political Action Conference
crime, 26, 55, 60, 85, 96, 111, 112, 137
criminal justice, 11, 54, 137, 138
Cruz, Ted, 75
CTU. See Chicago Teachers Union
Cullers, Patrice, 132
culture, 63, 65, 91, 95, 110, 126
Cuomo, Andrew, 20
Daily Beast, 127
Daily Shoah, 124
Daily Signal, The, 101
Daniels, Mitch, 19
Deaton, Angus, 55
debt, 4, 11, 20, 47, 54, 85; increase in, 28
Declaration of Independence, 108, 109
“Decline of the White Working Class, The” (panel), 63
Delonas, Sean, 33
Deloria, Philip, 109
Democratic Leadership Council, 97
Democratic National Committee, 99
Democratic Party, 24, 51, 75, 97
dependence, 12, 35, 63, 65, 151
Destiny (journal), 77
destitution, 50, 52; protection from, 57
development: economic, 139; political, 139, 161
Diamond, 111, 112, 113, 128; photo of, 128; white supremacist and, 127
Dickens, Charles, 115
discourse, 16, 71; civic-nationalist, 110; cultural, 43; political, 157; racial-nationalist, 110
discrimination, 24, 56, 68, 77, 87; racial, 6, 57, 82
dispossession, 133; Black, 51; land, 49; Native, 3; structural, 53; white, 149
Dixiecrat Revolt, 200n20
domination, 49, 65, 92, 93, 126; class, 158; racial, 6, 9, 14, 71, 177n12, 201n25; structured, 8, 10; white, 104
Douglass, Frederick, 5, 174n10
Down Home North Carolina, 202n40
drug addiction, 55, 56, 63, 150
D’Souza, Dinesh, 77
Du Bois, W. E. B., 7, 48, 49, 151
Duggan, Lisa, 9
Duncan, Arne, 33
Duvalier, Francois “Papa Doc,” 87
dysfunction, 62; cultural, 59, 65, 162; permanent, 50; social, 51
economic conditions, 16, 45, 52, 66, 148, 150, 162
economic crisis, 16, 18, 25, 52, 53–54, 56, 70, 129, 133, 135, 142, 144, 167
economic decline, 63, 66, 137, 146, 149–50
economic oppression, 64, 115, 157
Economic Policy Institute, 29
economy: capacities of, 10; free-market, 22; race and, 115
Edsall, Thomas, 26, 46, 159, 161
education, 4, 15, 65, 92; affordable/accessible, 11; bilingual, 96; disparities in, 71, 168; initiatives, 28; low-income whites and, 56; political, 167; popular, 164; privatization of, 45; subsidies, 48
8chan, 121
Emanuel, Rahm, 31
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 86
Emerson Electronics, 145
employment, 15, 53, 65; initiatives, 28; opportunities, 57; private-sector, 11; public-sector, 11, 21; racial disparities in, 168
Ennis, Ethel, 92
environmental protections, 11, 58, 139, 145
equality, 144; economic, 151; racial, 77; social, 77
“Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability,” 58
ethnicity, non-white, 103
Euro-Amerikan society, 25
Evangelicals, 81, 85, 102, 167
Evergreen State College, 118, 119, 122
exceptionalism, American, 15, 73, 88, 99, 108
exclusion, 6, 67, 104; economic, 106; racial, 76, 106; white, 149
FAIR. See Federation for American Immigration Reform
far right, 3, 102, 103, 125; multiculturalism and, 117, 128; racial transposition on, 107–11
Farrington, Joshua, 76
Federal Election Commission, 127
Federal Reserve, 4
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), 114, 194n21
Ferguson, Missouri, 18, 129, 130, 137, 138, 145, 150; organizational challenges in, 198n30; state brutality in, 168
Ferguson, Roderick, 94
Fields, Barbara, 8
Fields, Corey, 76
Fields, Karen, 8
Filson, John, 109
financial crisis (2008), 28
Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in Culture of Poverty (Lewis), 51
Fletcher, Arthur, 92
Flint, Michigan, 18, 145, 150, 168
food insecurity, 54
Forgotten Americans, 26, 52, 158
“forgotten man,” 91
Foster, Ezola, 126
4chan, 121
Fox News, 121
Francis, Samuel, 126
Franks, Gary A., 188n14
Fraser, Steven, 21
freedom, 95, 118; antiracist, 15; diminution of, 149; individual, 98, 108; market-based notion of, 97
“freedom of speech” rally, 154
Freeman, Joshua, 21
free speech rallies, 2, 103, 117, 118, 121; photo of, 122
French, David, 62
From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Lowndes), 52
Garza, Alicia, 132
gender, 89, 104, 105, 111; conventions, 27, 43; far-right identity and, 117; roles/traditional, 122
General Services Administration, 192n92
Gerstle, Gary, 104
Gest, Justin, 69
Gibson, Joey, 1, 118, 119, 121, 163; analysis of, 173n4; authoritarianism and, 154–55; campaign of, 3; defeat of, 173n1; Patriot Prayer and, 2, 153; photo of, 122; rallies and, 2; web page of, 2, 3 (fig.)
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 9, 10, 56
Gionet, Tim (“Baked Alaska”), 121
Gitlin, Todd, 26
Goldwater, Barry, 21, 51–52, 79, 90, 200n20
government: authoritarian, 156; electoral, 17; neoliberal, 78, 102; parasites of, 16; revenues for, 28–29; sovereign, 21; tribal, 141–42, 167
government workers. See public-sector workers
Graham, Lindsey, 81
Grants Pass Daily Courier, 143
grassroots organizing, 73, 91, 100
Great Recession, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 39, 44, 45, 47, 140; public-sector employment and, 29
Great Society, 60
Great Wave, 49
Greenhut, Steven, 22
Greensboro, sit-ins in, 201
gun-rights rally, photo of, 90
Gupta, Arun, 173n4
Hall, Stuart, 5, 10, 95, 174n12; on race/political signifier, 175n30; on racism analysis, 8
Hammond, Dwight, Jr., 130, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138; pardon for, 148, 149
Hammond, Steven, 130, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138; pardon for, 148, 149
Hampton, Lionel, 92
“Hands Up . . . Don’t Shoot,” 132, 147, 148
Harney County, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 147
Harney County Courthouse, 129–30
Harpers, 158
Harrington, Michael, 51
Hatch, Orrin, 90
haves, have-nots and, 19
Haymarket Riot, 21
health care, 11, 28, 39, 54, 56, 71, 115, 163, 185n28
“Hell Shaking Street Preachers,” 154
Heritage Foundation, 5, 80, 100, 101
Herrnstein, Richard, 58
“He Will Not Divide Us” (HWNDU), 114
hierarchy, 6; economic, 58, 64; racial, 49, 76, 77, 104, 117, 162; social, 49, 58
Highlander Center, 202n40
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis (Vance), 62, 63
Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Neel), 162
Hochschild, Arlie, 161, 165–66, 200n20
Hokowhitu, Brendan, 119
homo nationalis, 109–10
housing: disparities in, 71, 168; subsidies, 48
Huckabee, Mike, 81
Huffington Post, 83
Humphrey, Hubert H., 158
Idaho Community Action Network, 202n40
identity, 15, 16, 18, 21, 26–27, 32, 33, 36, 43, 47–48, 50, 52, 53, 57, 68, 70, 84, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 117, 121, 122, 125, 126, 132, 133, 142, 147, 149, 150, 157, 161–62, 163, 166, 167
Identity Evropa, 2, 103, 117, 121, 127
“I Have a Dream Day,” 99
“I’m an African American Woman: Here’s My Advice to Conservatives Wooing My Community” (Daily Signal), 101
immigrant rights struggle, 151, 167
immigrant uplift, 75–76
immigration, 14, 17, 68, 96, 111; Great Wave of, 49; illegal, 107, 113; policy, 67, 86, 98; racist, 164
incarceration, 14; Black/brown, 96; mass, 1, 2, 15, 54, 111–14, 138, 154; white/African American rates of, 184n22
income, 56; gap, 11; household, 4, 47, 62, 185n28; progressive, 6; racial disparities in, 168; redistribution of, 28, 53, 144; stagnation, 53
Industrial Workers of the World, 25
inequality: cultural determinants of, 16; economic, 3–4, 7, 8, 125, 145, 154; material, 51, 156; neoliberal, 158; political, 3–4, 7; racial, 5, 8, 9, 64, 77; social, 3–4, 58–59, 154, 156; structural, 65
Inside Edition, AFP and, 38
institutional supports, 11, 58, 100
internationalism, Black, 91, 164
International Woodworkers of America, 139
Islamophobia, 2, 14, 17, 96, 122, 155
Jackson, Jesse, 97
Jackson, Reynard, 106
James, Kay Coles, 100, 101, 102, 156, 163
Jet magazine, 93; advertisement from, 93 (fig.)
Jobbik party, 126
Joe the Plumber, 128
Johnson, Cedric, 94
Johnson, Sonnie, 156
Jones, Jacqueline, 8
Jordan, June, 92
Jordan, Vernon, 98
Josephine County, 144, 145, 149, 150; budget cuts for, 142–43
Josephine County Oath Keepers, 144
Keene, David, 73
Kemp, Jack, 95
Kemp–Roth tax cut, 95
Kennedy, Earl, 92
Kennedy, Jarvis, 141
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, 202n40
Kim, Claire Jean, 114
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 163, 166; political identification and, 165; poor and, 1, 164
Klein, Melanie, 146
LaBoeuf, Shia, 114
labor, 25, 34, 68; Black, 109; costs of, 44; exploitation, 15; foreign, 43–44; naturalizing, 160; organizations, 145; policy, 48; political, 2, 15, 65; of race, 4, 54, 128, 132, 158
Labrador, Raul, 75
Laird, Jennifer, 29
League of the South, 117
Leech, Robin, 37
Lester, Mike, 34
Letcher Governance Project, 202n40
Lewis, Oscar, 51
LGBT Pride parade, 154
liberalism, 59, 101–2, 107, 148, 159; race-obsessed, 117; racial, 26
Lichtenstein, Nelson, 21
Life, 50
Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous on Government Pensions, 37
Lincoln Review, 77
Lipsitz, George, 54, 57, 165, 166
Locke, John, 134
Long, Huey, 200n20
Love, Mia, 75, 77, 95, 99, 102, 191n66; campaign of, 88–89; photo of, 90; race and, 78; regressive policy and, 156; rise of, 87–91
Lowndes, Joseph, 52, 79, 156, 188n16
Lyons, Matthew N., 23
Mailer, Norman, 109
makers, takers and, 24
Malcolm X, 4–5
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 147, 150, 162; occupation of, 18, 130, 132, 133–42; photo of, 131, 140
Malkin, Michelle, 32
March for Life, 90
“March for Our Lives” gun-control protest, 123; photo of, 124
Marcuse, Herbert, 92
Marley, Bob, 109
marriage: programs promoting, 98; same-sex, 90, 155
Martin, Trayvon, 132
Martinez, Susana, 75
Martin Luther King Jr. Preparatory High School, 99
masculinity, 25; multicultural, 117–19, 121–24
Matheson, Jim, 88
Mayer, Jeremy, 69
McCain, John, 128
McCoy, Desmond, 35
McInnes, Gavin, 121, 122, 123, 124
media, 4; alt-lite, 114; popular, 38
Medicaid, 28
Medicare, 27
Meese, Ed, 100
middle America, 26, 52, 108, 158, 159
militarism, 74, 96, 102, 108, 133, 138, 156, 163, 201n25
militia groups, 90, 132, 146–47, 148, 149, 167, 196n9; right-wing, 133; self-styled, 135
Miller, Stephen, 105
Molina, Natalia, 12, 13, 175n29
Moniz, John, 84
Monnat, Shannon, 69
Moore, Roy, 90
morality, 15, 26, 27, 63, 65, 98, 99
Moten, Fred, 166
Movement for Black Lives, 18, 129, 137, 138, 145, 151
Moynihan, Bobby, 36
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 51, 58, 64
Mueller, Robert, 69
multiculturalism, 5, 18, 110, 156, 168; far-right, 114; masculinized version of, 103; neoliberal, 9, 97, 107; space of, 124–28; white supremacists and, 127
multinationalism, far right and, 128
multiracial polity, 107, 121, 126
Murdoch, Rupert, 59
Murray, Charles, 58, 63, 64, 162; racial categorizations and, 59; racism and, 163
Murray, George W., 80
Museum of the Moving Image, 114
Muslim women, harassment of, 2, 119
Musselman, Malori, 201n28
Myrdal, Gunnar, 51
Nation, The, 98
National Conference of State Legislatures, 177n10
nationalism, 67, 117, 126; authoritarian, 71, 103, 121, 151; civic, 103, 107, 108, 162; cultural notions of, 109; economic, 68, 105–7, 111; far-right, 17, 127; heteropatriarchal, 119; masculinized, 89; militaristic, 76; racial, 103, 107, 108, 119; right-wing, 125; ultra-, 74; white, 2, 18, 54, 103, 104, 105–7, 109, 121, 124–25, 127, 145, 146, 147, 149
National Policy Institute, 110
National Rally, 126
National Review, 59, 60, 62, 63, 162; cover of, 61 (fig.)
National Rifle Association, 90
National Vanguard, 118
Native Action, 202n40
Native Alaskans, 185n28
Native Americans, 109, 123, 151, 185n27
nativism, 44, 67, 112, 113, 125
Neel, Phil A., 162
Negro Family: The Case for National Action, The (Moynihan), 51, 58, 65
Nehlen, Paul, 127; photo of, 128
neoliberalism, 132, 149, 168; as antiracist freedom, 15; dominant modes of, 17; political power of, 9
New Deal, 26, 27, 47, 48, 51, 53, 79, 158
New Gilded Age, race/class in, 4–8
Newport, AFP and, 38
New Yorker, 158
New York Post, cartoons in, 33
Nextshark, 117
Nixon, Richard M., 52, 158; blackonomics and, 93; Black vote for, 92; campaign ad for, 93 (fig.); law and order and, 79; silent majority and, 26
Norquist, Grover, 143
Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility, 167
Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference, 32–33
Norton, Anne, 32
Oath Keepers, 147
Obama, Barack, 4, 81, 85, 99, 113, 133; birth certificate and, 66; Black vote for, 76–77; criticism of, 112; racist cartoon, 33–34; white polity and, 66
Obama, Michelle, 99
Obamacare, 115
Occupy movement, 161
Odom, Markeesha, 35
Office of Management and Budget, 192n92
Office of Personnel Management, 100, 192n92
Olson, Joel, 49
Operation Dixie, 21
Orange County Register, 22
Oregon Farm Bureau, 135
organization, 18; public-sector, 45; teacher-led, 46; urban, 167
Ostroy, Andy, 83–84
Other America: Poverty in the United States, The (Harrington), 51
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, 63
“Out of the Way, Peasants” (Greenhut), 22
Paiute Tribe, 141
Palin, Sarah, 81
parasites, 4, 16, 164, 201n28; of government, 19; producers and, 12, 42, 44–46
parasitism, 16, 24, 27, 45; charges of, 42; discourse of, 46; as gluttony, 29–34; as idleness, 34–38; logic of, 36, 38, 39; script of, 29, 35
Parkland, Florida: shooting at, 123, 124
Parks, Gordon, 93
Partnership for Safety and Justice, 138
patriot groups, 90, 135, 145, 147, 164, 167
Patriot Prayer, 118, 119, 121, 153, 154; analysis of, 173n4; organization of, 2
Paul, Rand, 134
Pawlenty, Tim, 20
Peinovich, Mike “Enoch,” 124, 125
Pence, Mike, 148
people of color, 59–60, 77, 103; economic mobility for, 29; fascist, 121; LGBT, 6; needs of, 96; participation of, 17–18; representations of, 23; Republican, 78; stigmatization of, 39; white poor and, 17, 58
People’s Party, 25
Pepe the Frog, 121
Perdue, Sonny, 149
Perez, Leander, 200n20
Pinckney, Clementa, 86
Planned Parenthood, 154
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation (Greenhut), 22
political conditions, 5, 11, 16, 54, 145
political history, 5, 147, 161, 167
political projects, 10, 18, 48
Political Tribes (Chua), 161
Politico, 86
poor, 1, 96, 164; Black/brown, 54, 104; undeserving, 23; white, 17, 49–50, 54, 59
Poor People’s Campaign, 163, 164, 165
populism, 26–27, 67, 104, 155; right-wing, 23, 111; white, 71
Posse Comitatus, 135
Possessive Investment in Whiteness (Lipsitz), 57
precarity, 12, 166; economic, 3, 66; politics of, 4, 6–7; racializing, 58–60, 62–65; white, 18, 58–60, 62–65, 77
prison–industrial complex, 98
private sector, 19, 20, 29, 86, 140; public sector and, 74
producerism, 17, 23, 88, 142, 160, 164; ethical norms of, 43; ideology of, 24; laborist appeals to, 44; labor union, 43; logic of, 27, 37; mobilization of, 33; populist, 24–29; reclaiming, 39–44; white, 18, 70, 134, 142, 149–51, 162
producers, 4, 58; parasites and, 12, 42, 44–46
Protect the Harvest, 148
Proud Boy Magazine, 122
Proud Boys, 2, 120, 121, 124, 154; Jews and, 125; membership in, 122, 123; photo of, 124
PRRI/The Atlantic White Working Class Survey, 186n55
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), 68
public sector, 28, 29, 43, 74, 140
public-sector workers, 19, 27, 31, 42, 43; attack on, 20, 30, 36–37, 45; Black, 29; criticism of, 21–24, 29, 73–74; Issue 2 and, 40; portrayal of, 39; race and, 21–24; representations of, 34; as social threats, 30; strikes by, 39; support for, 41; symbolism of, 20–21; unionized, 20, 44; white, 3, 24
race, 33, 67, 89, 111, 114–15, 117, 125, 163
“Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance” (Hall), 8
racial categories, 10, 59, 159
racial conflicts, 5, 7, 146, 158
racism, 4–5, 26, 27, 33, 43, 56, 71, 98, 118, 119, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 151, 163; analysis of, 8; anti-Black, 52, 132, 138, 145, 167; appeals to, 17, 67; dominant class and, 8; inequality and, 9; institutional, 7, 107; open, 104; patriarchy and, 122; structural, 7
Rainbow Coalition, 97
Rana, Aziz, 157
Rand, Ayn, 89
Raspail, Jean, 105
Ravenel, Arthur J., 80
Reagan, Ronald, 21, 79, 90, 91, 100, 159
Reagan Democrats, 52, 150, 159
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 165, 167
Rector, Ricky Ray, 97
redistribution, 16, 58, 164; collective, 54; economic, 6; material, 98; wealth, 150
Reed, Adolph, 8, 91, 92, 93, 94
Reny, Tyler, 69
reproductive rights, 15, 54, 74, 94
Republican National Convention (RNC), 77, 96, 112; Love and, 87, 88, 89
Republican Party, 52, 76, 80, 95, 125; Black votes for, 79, 96; white votes for, 97
reservation, described, 60
resistance: civil rights movement and, 6; nonviolent, 1; possibilities of, 168; restructuring of, 91
Rice, Condoleezza, 188n16
Rice, Joseph, 144
Richardson, Rochelle, 111
right, protofascist, 117–19, 121–24
“right-to-work” legislation, 44, 81, 178n20
right-wing, defined, 4
Right Wing Death Squad (RWDS), 154
Rigueur, Leah Wright, 76
Robertson, Pat, 100
Robinson, Cedric, 13
Robinson, Jackie, 92
Rodrique, Charlotte, 141
Roediger, David R., 27
Rogers, Joel, 159
Roof, Dylan, 86
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 21, 25, 79
ROP. See Rural Organizing Project
Roseanne (sitcom), 161
ROTC, 75
Rubio, Marco, 75
“Rural Lives Matter” protest, 130, 136, 148; flyer for, 136 (fig.); photo of, 131
Rural Organizing Project (ROP), 166, 167, 202n39
Sagebrush Rebellion, 149
Sakai, J., 25
Sanders, Bernie, 155
Sandoval, Brian, 75
Sandstrom, Stephen, 88
Saturday Night Life (SNL), 35; scene from, 36 (fig.)
Saxton, Alexander, 24
Scott, Tim, 75, 77, 88, 91, 99, 101, 102; appointment of, 80; conservative credentials of, 81; election of, 83; Graham and, 81; NAACP and, 82; Ostroy and, 83–84; photo of, 83; police shootings and, 190n54; policy commitments of, 86; political narrative of, 85; race and, 78, 84; regressive policy and, 156; rise of, 78–87; votes for, 81, 82, 86, 188n24; white conservatives and, 91
Scott, Walter, 86
security, 50, 53; economic, 65, 75; income, 28, 56; job, 20, 35; national, 75; whiteness and, 65
segregation, 15, 69, 79, 98, 99
Senate Bill (SB) 5: 39, 40, 50
Sessions, Jeff, 105
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (Sakai), 25
Shaw, Jamiel, Sr., 114
Shermer, Elizabeth, 21
Shriver, Sargent, 51
Sidibe, Gabourey, 35, 36; photo of, 36
Silent Majority, 26, 52, 79, 91, 92, 99, 108, 158, 159; unmooring of, 69–71
Silk, 111, 112, 113, 128; photo of, 128; white supremacist and, 127
Silk, Joseph, 44–45
Sister Souljah, 97
slavery, 3, 7, 13, 25, 134, 164; legal, 1, 155
Slotkin, Richard, 109
Smith, Rogers, 103–4
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 109–10
SNL. See Saturday Night Live
social movements, 2, 113, 138, 164; antiracist, 98–99; Black, 78; oppositional, 17, 166
“Solidarity Forever” (Chaplin), 25
Sonnie’s Corner, 156
Sons of Confederate Veterans, 80
South Carolina Black Chamber of Commerce, 106
South Carolina General Assembly, 81
South Carolina Tea Party Convention, 84; photo of, 83
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 163
Southern Echo, 202n40
Southerners on New Ground, 202n40
Southern Poverty Law Center, 123, 194n21
Southwest Organizing Project, 202n40
“sovereign citizen” movement, 135
Sowell, Thomas, 77
Spence, Lester, 85
Strangers in Their Own Land (Hochschild), 160
subjectivity, 15; Black, 95; national, 110; political, 48
subordination, 5, 14, 15, 29, 34, 51, 60, 64, 76, 137, 164
Sudeikis, Jason: photo of, 36
Sugar Pine Mine, 143
sugar strike (1897), 200n20
Sumner, William Graham, 161
Swedish Democrats, 126
Tampa Bay Times Forum, 87
taxes, 6, 45, 139, 182n67; progressive, 22; regressive, 11
taxpayers, 30, 39; rights of, 23; unions and, 34
Taylor, Jared, 125
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 49
Tea Party, 36–37, 73, 74, 81, 90, 100, 156, 165, 200n20; black/brown members of, 3; civil rights movement and, 3; emergence of, 75; race and, 190n55; Scott and, 82
Teixeira, Ruy, 159
Thompson, Kenan, 35
Thurber, Timothy, 76
Thurmond, Paul, 80
Thurmond, Strom, 79, 80, 81, 188n24
timber industry, 139, 142, 167
Time, 158
Toese, Tiny John, 103, 115, 118, 119, 121, 154, 195n31; photo of, 120
Tometi, Opal, 132
Townes, Clarence, 92
Traditional Workers Party, 117
transposition, racial, 12–18, 36, 42, 45, 71, 107–11, 130, 157, 162, 175n29
Trump, Donald, 18, 70, 81, 89–90, 111, 112, 114, 115, 118; Bannon and, 105; Black vote for, 77; border wall and, 113; campaign of, 65, 108; election of, 66, 158, 159, 160; foreign agents and, 69; Hammonds and, 148; immigration and, 14, 113; inauguration of, 103; Latino/a vote for, 77; Muslim ban and, 67; populism and, 71; presidential politics and, 66; racism and, 118; Romney and, 69; Scott and, 83; support for, 17, 67, 68, 117, 121, 155, 159; white supremacists and, 174n13
“Trump Free Speech Rally,” 119
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 109
“2010 Public Employee of the Year” (SNL), 35–36, 36 (fig.)
unemployment, 18, 48, 54, 56, 129, 138, 142, 145, 159
unions, 6, 19, 20, 27; agenda of, 21–22; attacks on, 22, 23, 29–30, 36–37, 62; Black, 91; criticism of, 21, 24, 33–34; cultural framing of, 31; depiction of, 32; destructive power of, 34; private-sector, 23, 178n20; public-sector, 16, 21–22, 23, 24, 29–30, 31, 32, 33–34, 36–37, 39, 41, 42, 178n19, 178n20; rent-seeking behavior of, 21; strategy of, 181n63; structural/political critiques of, 29; weakening, 177n10
United Nations, early warning by, 6
Unite the Right rally, 105, 118, 122
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 82
U.S. Department of Education, 90
U.S. Department of Energy, 90
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 95
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 136
U.S. Senate, 82
“Valley of Poverty, The” (Dominis), 50
violence, 24, 70, 134, 166; anti-Black, 148; anti-immigrant, 44; anti-Islamic, 119; gender-based, 94; police, 17, 145; racialized, 149; sex-based, 94; state, 133, 142, 156, 157; vigilante, 2, 71; white, 130, 132, 149
Virginia Organizing Project, 202n40
vulnerability, 4, 24, 43, 47, 50, 56, 67, 69, 85, 102, 150; economic, 16, 52; racial, 28; white, 58, 77
wages, 42; decline in, 4; flattening of, 28, 62
Walker, Peter, 141
Walker, Scott, 19, 41; criticism of, 44, 182n67; public-sector workers and, 23; unions and, 178n20
Wallace, Hunter, 125
war on terror, 155
Warriors for Freedom, 121
Washington, Booker T., 85
Washington Times, 126
Watts, J. C., 188n14
wealth, 9, 16, 150; accumulation of, 65; distribution of, 24; expansion of, 47; gap, 11, 53; racial disparities in, 168; redistribution of, 4, 6, 47
We Are Ohio, 39–41
welfare, 26, 85, 97; affirmative action and, 28; attacks on, 96, 98; dependency, 60, 88; rights, 94; social, 6, 15
welfare mothers, 23
welfare-reform law, 52
welfare state, 22
West, Allen, 73, 77, 89, 95, 99, 101, 102; militaristic nationalism of, 76; race and, 78; white conservatives and, 91
West, Coleman, 73
“What Do We Want? We Want More!” (Benson), 31, 31 (fig.)
“What So Many People Don’t Get about the U.S. Working Class” (Williams), 159
What’s the Matter with Kansas? (Frank), 150
“White Ghetto, The” (Williamson), 59
whiteness, 12, 14, 24, 25, 36, 56, 71, 87, 138, 151, 157; creation/re-creation of, 57; debasement of, 66, 69; defending, 117; fantasies of, 108; guarantees of, 66; historic value of, 68; poverty and, 54; privileges of, 65; public investment in, 48–55; wages of, 57, 70
“white power” sign, photo of, 124
white rage, precarious, 65–69
white supremacy, 5, 49, 70, 103, 104, 108, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 157, 158, 162, 174n13, 196n9; Blackness/multiculturalism and, 124; bolstering, 105; expressions of, 6; legacies of, 147; multiculturalism and, 127; persistence of, 24; politics of, 17; potency of, 125; rewarding, 114
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Williams), 160
Willer, Chuck, 139
Williams, Joan C., 159, 160, 161
Williamson, Kevin, 59, 60, 62, 162, 163; cover story by, 61 (fig.)