Merge left: fusing race and class, winning elections, and saving America

✍ Scribed by Ian Haney López

• Book ID: 100603165
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1007 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States,United States.
• ISBN: 1620975653

✦ Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future

"Ian Haney L opez has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years."--Bill Moyers

In 2014, Ian Haney Lopez in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century--and thereby anticipated the 2016 presidential election. Now the country is heading into what will surely be one of the most consequential elections ever, with the Right gearing up to exploit racial fear-mongering to divide and distract, and the Left splintered over the next step forward. Some want to focus on racial justice head-on; others insist that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters.

Can either...

✦ Subjects

United States