Categoría: Comportamiento electoral
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The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality
It wasn’t so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown…
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR’s 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR’s Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2016: 100 recommended books…
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Populist Explosion
«Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb.» – Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What’s happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and…
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land **A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week‘s 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle‘s 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017** «A devastating read…For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment…
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Listen, Liberal: or, what ever happened to the party of the people?
With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one of the biggest political issues of our time: from the Wall Street bail-outs – where bankers still…
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and…
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, «white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,» she argued, «everyone…
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America?s relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony…
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world―from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his…
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving «welfare queens» and «strapping young bucks» buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but…