scholarly journals When God Collides with Race and Class: Working-Class America’s Shift to Conservatism

2006 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Civil Unions ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
George Bush ◽  
Defense Of Marriage Act ◽  
Democratic Presidential Candidate

With that speech President George W. Bush and the Republicans laid bare their strategy to divide and divert America’s working class. With the economy struggling nationwide, and unemployment rising to more than percent in states such as Ohio, Republicans shifted the focus of the upcoming election from the economy to issues of faith, gay marriage, abortion, and guns. Evoking an “us vs. them” mentality, they branded Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry as a “Massachusetts liberal who voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, backs civil unions for homosexuals, voted to defend the infanticide known as partial-birth abortion and wants to raise the federal income taxes that George Bush lowered.”

Coming Back Home to Live and Not Die: A Human Geography of a Working-Class Black Gay Male Navigating the Local Higher Education Pipeline

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592098729
Author(s):  
Amalia Z. Dache ◽  
Keon M. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Education Pipeline ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Narrative Mapping

The purpose of this study is to illustrate how in the span of three decades, a working-class Black gay male college student residing in a post-industrial city navigated college. Through a postcolonial geographic epistemology and theories of human geography, we explore his narrative, mapping the terrain of sexual, race and class dialects, which ultimately led to Marcus’s (pseudonym) completion of graduate school and community-based policy research. Marcus’s educational human geography reveals the unique and complex intersections of masculinity, Blackness and class as identities woven into his experiences navigating the built environment.

The Changing Structure of Party Identification

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Laurily K. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Party Identification ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Popular Vote ◽  
Majority Party ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Democratic Presidential Candidate

However one wishes to characterize Walter Mondale's campaign for the presidency, his loss was only the latest in a series of Democratic presidential candidate defeats beginning in 1968. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey got 43 percent of the popular vote. In 1972, George McGovem received 38 percent of the popular vote. And in both 1980 and 1984, the Democratic presidential tickets got 41 percent of the popular vote. Only in 1976 did a Democratic presidential candidate receive a (very slim) majority of the popular votes cast. Indeed, Democratic presidential candidates have received only 42 percent of the total votes cast between 1968 and 1984.Although Democratic presidential candidates have not been faring well for 16 years, party identification has remained about the same—with the Democrats as the majority party. Until 1984. And that is what makes the 1984 election interesting, for in this election the voters finally seemed to change their party identification to correspond with what now appears to be their habit of electing Republican presidents.In 1980, when Jimmy Carter received the same proportion of the total votes cast as did Walter Mondale in 1984, self-styled Democrats were still in the majority. But, by 1984, Republicans and Democrats were at a virtual tie nationwide, as these figures from NBC News election day voter polls demonstrate.

Presumed Mexican Until Proven Otherwise: Identity Work and Intersectional Typicality among Middle-Class Dominican and Mexican Immigrants

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Browne ◽  
Katharine Tatum ◽  
Belisa Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Class Stratification ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Positive Traits ◽  
Negative Stereotyping ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Non-Latino natives often conflate “Latino” with “Mexican,” treating Mexican as a stigmatized group. Latinos often engage in “identity work” to neutralize this stigmatized identity. We link these micro processes of identity work with macro structures of stratification through “intersectional typicality.” We argue that the selection of which positive traits immigrants highlight to avoid stigma is systematic and tied to intersecting dimensions of race and class stratification at the macro level. We argue that this process is context-specific. We use the case of middle-class Dominicans and Mexicans living in Atlanta. Our findings show that both groups perceive that the pervasive image of the typical Latino in Atlanta is that of a working-class Mexican. While both groups perceive this image to be low-status, they diverge in their strategies for countering this presumption. Mexicans emphasize their middle-class status and often try to change the typical image of Latinos. Dominicans emphasize that they are not Mexican and highlight their atypicality. Interview data show that Dominicans are concerned about the Mexican label because of embedded working-class assumptions. We argue that although many respondents successfully avoid negative stereotyping, their identity work actually reaffirms the low-status meaning of the typical Latino category.

scholarly journals Persuasive Strategies in Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Abbas Deygan Darweesh ◽  
Manar Kareem Mehdi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Campaign Speeches ◽  
Democratic Presidential Candidate

This paper aims to explore how a political leader can propagate ideology through the tactful use of language. It has been investigated how different linguistic tools have been used to project or achieve political objectives. Therefore, the paper is devoted to the exploration of persuasive and manipulative strategies utilized by the democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her campaign speeches. This paper is framed under the scope of discourse analysis wherein three speeches of Hillary Clinton are highlighted to fathom the ways in which she mesmerizes her audience through the use of certain linguistic and rhetorical devices and crafts to inject her ultimate goal of persuading people and indoctrinate her ideology so as to gain as many voters as possible .The selected speeches have been analyzed qualitatively using analytical framework of Barbra Johnstone's work (2008) about persuasive strategies.

Both Sides of the Line: Stuart Hall and New Ethnicities, then and now

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (96) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Phil Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Direct Input

Part memoir, part critical reflection, this essay traces the trajectory of one of the key concepts in Stuart Hall's approach to issues of race and class. Drawing on the influential work of the Centre for New Ethnicities Research (UEL) in the 1990's it examines how the theory of new ethnicities was put under empirical pressure through ethnographic research with communities in East London; it also looks at the innovative pedagogy of antiracist work with young people which was developed with direct input from SH. A detailed case study of one such intervention is presented. The continuing relevance of the key debates around multiculturalism and anti-racism during this period is highlighted in a concluding section which revisits the concept of authoritarian populism in the context of the Brexit vote and the shape shifting configurations of the 'white' working class as both backbone of the nation and race apart.

Rethinking Class and Contemporary Working-Class Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Michael Zweig
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Working People ◽  
Intellectual Capacity ◽  
Organization Of Production ◽  
Working Class Studies

The field of working class studies is forming in the context of dramatic changes in the labor process and crises in capitalist economies. Workers have historically been slow to adjust to such changes with new organizing strategies. As we seek our bearings among the changes in order to develop the field in ways that enhance the organizational and intellectual capacity of working people, we should hold onto a key point of continuity: whatever the new labor processes or changes in the economy, the working class continues to exist in capitalist societies, within capitalist class dynamics, in which the organization of production underlies material, cultural, and political experience. Race and class continue to be mutually determined. While each is distinct, neither can be properly understood or challenged in isolation from the other.

“Oppressed and Destroyed”

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-556
Author(s):  
S. Janelle Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
Unique Site ◽  
History Of ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Depression Era

In 1932 in Depression-era Los Angeles, Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros took advantage of a unique site on Olvera Street to confront Los Angeles’s establishment on behalf of not only Mexican Americans in California but the proletariat everywhere. The resulting mural, América tropical, challenged Los Angeles’s sanitized history of its Mexican past and the persecution of the city’s immigrant working class. The establishment responded by requesting that Siqueiros leave the country and by whitewashing the mural. In the late 1960s, the white overpaint began to fade, and América tropical re-emerged to play a part in another chapter of the politics of race and class in Los Angeles. Revisiting the mural and its destruction illuminates the complex interplay between outdoor art and civic discourse.

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