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Book SynopsisAntidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into view. It offers essays from leading scholars on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, and the media.
Trade ReviewAntidemocracy in America is essential reading for understanding the deep divisions within American society, which are not new and have led us to this critical moment in U.S. political culture. -- Alondra Nelson, author of
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the GenomeThis provocative book offers an all-star lineup for scholars from multiple disciplines who provide a fascinating analysis of the anti-democratic forces that have gained hold within the United States. As readers try to make sense of the era of Trump, this is a perfect starting point to make sense of the troubling developments we have seen. -- Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, coauthors of
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974This book offers readers more than respite from the relentless buzz of tweets, shares, and posts that overcrowd our daily consciousness; it supplies a beneficial point of departure for thinking critically about the direction of our political life in these challenging times.
Antidemocracy in America is thoughtfully curated and insightful. -- Anthony S. Chen, author of
The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972Recommended for readers seeking a critique of the Trump administration from multiple progressive liberal perspectives based on public policy themes. * Library Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Big Picture, by Eric Klinenberg
Part I. The Crisis: Where We AreResource Extraction, by Michelle Wilde Anderson
Confronting Manhood After Trump, by Lisa Wade
Predatory Real Estate, by Thomas J. Sugrue
The Misinformation Society, by Victor Pickard
Defending Open Cities, by Saskia Sassen
Criminalizing Immigrants, by Alina Das
Trump, Trade, and War, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Rule by Misrule, by Richard Sennett
School of Trump, by Pedro Noguera
Trump on Twitter: How a Medium Designed for Democracy Became an Authoritarian’s Mouthpiece, by Fred Turner
Trump’s Attack on Knowledge, by Craig Calhoun
Part II. The Collapse: How We Got HereThe Devastated House of Labor, by Margaret Levi
Unholy Alliances, by Shamus Khan
Coalthink, by Gretchen Bakke
Violence and Criminal Justice, by Patrick Sharkey
Women Voters, Left and Right, by Linda Gordon
The Office of the Presidency, by Robert Shrum
Religion and the Republic, by Philip Gorski
Evangelical Voters, by Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Gun Culture, by Harel Shapira
Black Women and the FBI, by Ashley Farmer
Confederate Revisionist History, by Douglas S. Massey
Trump’s Charisma, by Steven Lukes
Unequal America, by Michelle Jackson and David B. Grusky
Part III. The Solutions: What We Can DoWorking-Class Environmentalism, by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Defending Society, by Wendy Brown
Protest, Violent and Nonviolent, by Judith Butler
Social Solidarity, by Michele Lamont
“The Parliament of Bodies”, by Jack Halberstam
The Right Type of Citizenship, by Jefferson Cowie
Multiracial Cooperation, by William Julius Wilson
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