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Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Index

Producers, Parasites, Patriots

Index

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

alcohol abuse, 55, 56, 150

Alexander, Michelle, 98

Alexander, M. Jaqui, 35

Alger, Horatio, 89

“All Lives Matter,” 132, 145

alt-lite, 18, 124–28

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-Blackness, 31, 60, 96

anti-Chinese campaign, 26, 106

anti-discrimination laws, 6, 11, 27, 79, 82, 98

“anti-establishment” crusade, 1

Antifa, 118, 119, 153, 154

antifascists, 118, 121, 153

anti-gay ballot measures, 166

anti-immigrant stance, 67, 112, 122, 123, 127

anti-Islam, 106, 107, 123, 125, 127

anti-poverty programs, 60, 96

antiracism, 6, 7, 8, 98–99, 109, 130, 154, 165, 168

anti-Semitism, 106, 107, 127

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

Appalachia, 50, 59, 60

Associated Press, 86

Atwater, Lee, 79, 80, 90

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 elites, 16, 94–95

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

Booker, Cory, 85, 99

Boone, Daniel, 109

Bowling Alone (Putnam), 64

Breitbart, Andrew, 156

Breitbart News, 105, 114, 127, 199n11

Breitbart Radio, 101, 156

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, Cliven, 133, 134

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

busing, 26, 27, 28

“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

cannibalism, 30–31, 32, 33

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

Catte, Elizabeth, 50, 63

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

Chua, Amy, 46, 161, 200n25

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

Civil War, 79, 108, 157

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

CNN, 88, 148

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

Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 165, 166

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

Damigo, Nathan, 103, 127

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

DeMint, Jim, 80, 81, 100

Democratic Leadership Council, 97

Democratic National Committee, 99

Democratic Party, 24, 51, 75, 97

dependence, 12, 35, 63, 65, 151

deportation, 14, 111–14, 150

deregulation, 4, 11, 53

despair, deaths of, 55–57, 69

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

Dominis, John, 50, 51

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

Duke, David, 105, 200n20

Duncan, Arne, 33

Duvalier, Francois “Papa Doc,” 87

dysfunction, 62; cultural, 59, 65, 162; permanent, 50; social, 51

ecological crisis, 12, 141

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 gap, 64, 150

economic oppression, 64, 115, 157

Economic Policy Institute, 29

economy: capacities of, 10; free-market, 22; race and, 115

Edsall, Mary, 26, 159

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

emancipation, 79, 151, 168

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

Facebook, 44, 123, 127

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

fascism, 2, 104

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

Finicum, LaVoy, 130, 147, 148

Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in Culture of Poverty (Lewis), 51

Fletcher, Arthur, 92

Flint, Michigan, 18, 145, 150, 168

food insecurity, 54

food stamps, 63, 81

foreign influence, 68, 69

Forgotten Americans, 26, 52, 158

“forgotten man,” 91

Foster, Ezola, 126

4chan, 121

Fox News, 121

Francis, Samuel, 126

Frank, Thomas, 150, 151

Franks, Gary A., 188n14

Fraser, Steven, 21

freedom, 95, 118; antiracist, 15; diminution of, 149; individual, 98, 108; market-based notion of, 97

“freedom march,” 151, 153

“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

genetics, 10, 58, 168

genocide, 54, 164

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.)

Gilded Age, 6, 157

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 9, 10, 56

Gionet, Tim (“Baked Alaska”), 121

Gitlin, Todd, 26

globalism, 16, 106, 107

Global South, 14, 105, 133

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

Greenberg, Stanley, 150, 159

Greenhut, Steven, 22

Greensboro, sit-ins in, 201

gun control, 90, 123

gun-rights rally, photo of, 90

Gupta, Arun, 173n4

Haley, Nikki, 75, 76, 80

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

Hardaway, Lynnette, 111, 112

Harney County, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 147

Harney County Courthouse, 129–30

Harpers, 158

Harrington, Michael, 51

Harris, Cheryl, 49, 54, 67

Hatch, Orrin, 90

Hattam, Victoria, 156, 188n16

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

Heyer, Heather, 118, 122

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

homophobia, 154, 167

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

immigrants, 14, 23, 28, 49

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

individualism, 23, 88, 148

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

Issue 2: 40, 41, 44

Jackson, Jesse, 97

Jackson, Reynard, 106

James, Kay Coles, 100, 101, 102, 156, 163

Jet magazine, 93; advertisement from, 93 (fig.)

Jews, 122, 125

Jim Crow, 7, 49, 79, 164

Jindal, Bobby, 75, 76

Jobbik party, 126

Joe the Plumber, 128

Johnson, Cedric, 94

Johnson, Lyndon B., 51, 60

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

Kasich, John, 20, 39, 41

Keene, David, 73

Kelley, Robin, 132, 133

Kemp, Jack, 95

Kemp–Roth tax cut, 95

Kennedy, Earl, 92

Kennedy, Jarvis, 141

Kennedy, Robert F., 50, 51

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

Ku Klux Klan, 2, 105, 117

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

Latino/as, 7, 56, 106, 159

law and order, 79, 125

League of the South, 117

Leech, Robin, 37

Lester, Mike, 34

Letcher Governance Project, 202n40

Lewis, Karen, 31, 32–33

Lewis, Oscar, 51

LGBT Pride parade, 154

liberalism, 59, 101–2, 107, 148, 159; race-obsessed, 117; racial, 26

liberation, Black, 93, 109

Lichtenstein, Nelson, 21

Life, 50

Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous on Government Pensions, 37

Limbaugh, Rush, 19–20, 23

Lincoln Review, 77

Lipsitz, George, 54, 57, 165, 166

Locke, John, 134

Long, Huey, 200n20

Lorde, Audre, 165, 166

Lott, Eric, 27, 109

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

Lucas, Forrest, 148, 149

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

Melamed, Jodi, 9, 10

mental health, 55, 143

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

Morrison, Toni, 98, 109

mortality, 55, 56, 69

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 ban, 67, 105

Muslim women, harassment of, 2, 119

Musselman, Malori, 201n28

Myrdal, Gunnar, 51

NAACP, 80, 82, 97

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

New York Times, 106, 161

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

opioid poisoning, 3, 56

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

patriarchy, 74, 122, 125, 167

patriot groups, 90, 135, 145, 147, 164, 167

Patriot Prayer, 118, 119, 121, 153, 154; analysis of, 173n4; organization of, 2

patriots, 4, 117, 151

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

pluralism, 5, 86, 107, 162

police, 15, 71

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

poverty, 47, 48, 50, 54, 151

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

privatization, 4, 11, 18, 65

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

property rights, 133, 134

property taxes, 140, 142

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 safety, 41, 42, 142

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

public services, 28, 46, 145

Putnam, Robert, 64, 65

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

racial order, 7, 13, 49, 66

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

Rainey, Joseph H., 78, 79

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

Rogin, Michael, 27, 108

Romney, Mitt, 24, 69, 90

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

Ryan, Paul, 83, 127

safety net, 52, 56–57, 62

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

self-sufficiency, 52, 56, 75

Senate Bill (SB) 5: 39, 40, 50

Sessions, Jeff, 105

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (Sakai), 25

Shaw, Jamiel, Jr., 112, 113

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

Singh, Nikhil Pal, 57, 70

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 change, 66, 165

social justice, 2, 42

social meaning, 12, 13–14

social media, 119, 121, 162

social movements, 2, 113, 138, 164; antiracist, 98–99; Black, 78; oppositional, 17, 166

social protection, 4, 164

social sciences, 7, 8

Social Security, 27, 48, 65

social wages, 20, 23, 29

“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

Southern Strategy, 79, 157

Southwest Organizing Project, 202n40

“sovereign citizen” movement, 135

sovereignty, 21, 22, 52, 164

Sowell, Thomas, 77

Spady, David, 37, 38

Spence, Lester, 85

Spencer, Richard, 110, 127

Steele, Shelby, 77, 85

Stormfront, 109, 110

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

suicide, 55, 56

Sumner, William Graham, 161

Swedish Democrats, 126

Tampa Bay Times Forum, 87

tax cuts, 28, 53, 179n34

taxes, 6, 45, 139, 182n67; progressive, 22; regressive, 11

taxpayers, 30, 39; rights of, 23; unions and, 34

tax revolt, 28, 179n34

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

Thomas, Clarence, 74, 77, 85

Thompson, Kenan, 35

Three Percenters, 2, 147

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

Trumpism, 2, 68, 148

Tu, Thuy Linh, 57, 70

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

universalism, 97, 108, 126

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

U.S. Supreme Court, 44, 74

“Valley of Poverty, The” (Dominis), 50

Vance, J. D., 62–63, 64, 162

Vice magazine, 121, 144

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, George, 26, 52

Wallace, Hunter, 125

War on Poverty, 50, 51, 60

war on terror, 155

Warriors for Freedom, 121

Washington, Booker T., 85

Washington Post, 31, 76

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 queens, 3, 19, 79, 91

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.)