Pulling Whites Up By Their Own Bootstraps: Is This White Identity Politics?
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Capitalist News Interpreted /
18 Jul 2016
According to this article, playing the race card directly against blacks is too much of a taboo. Instead Trump used it against a less organized group – Mexicans – but decades of suppressed white hostility to blacks is never far from the surface. Unfortunately there is no mention of the social class dynamics operating.
Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.