Lisa R. Pruitt (UC-Davis): Welfare Queens and White Trash. Carlos Lozada reviews White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (and more and more). Trump as tribune of poor white people: Rod Dreher interviews J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis. J.D. Vance on how the white working class lost its patriotism — and why that led to the rise of Donald Trump. Judd Legum on Donald Trump and the normalization of white male supremacy. Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message. David Duke: “Trump left the door open to supporting my candidacy”. If there’s no place for David Duke’s bigotry in the GOP, it’s because all the slots are filled and there’s a waiting list a mile long. Only 20 percent of voters are “real Americans”.
Katherine Kirkinis and Sarah Birdsong on the scientific way to train white people to stop being racist. White people think racism is getting worse — against white people. Jonathan Chait on Black Lives Matter and the ideology of white backlash. Why are whites so angry? Jesse McCarthy reviews White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. Is white rage driving our racial divide? Nikole Hannah-Jones on the grief that white Americans can’t share.
