Justin Gest

The New Minority

White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

In this daring and insightful book, Justin Gest studies white working class people's attitudes and political behavior in the United States and Britain. Based on ethnographies and original surveys, the book offers a rich, nuanced and generalizable account of the marginality sensed by one of society's most misunderstood groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780190632557
• ISBN-10: 0190632550
• Artikelnr.: 47804154

Autorenporträt

Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also the author of Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Marginality in the Post-Traumatic
City
* Chapter 2 The New Minority: A Counter-narrative and its Politics
* Chapter 3 Peripheral Visions: The Politics of Displacement in East
London
* Chapter 4 After the Fall: The Politics of Insecurity in Youngstown,
Ohio
* Chapter 5 Institutions: Structures of a Crumbling Polity
* Chapter 6 Identities: Prisms of Culture and Class
* Chapter 7 Deprivations: Alternative Understandings of Social
Hierarchy
* Chapter 8 Measuring Marginality: American and British Support for the
Radical Right
* Chapter 9 The Untouchables: Who Can Appeal to the White Working
Class?
* Appendix A: Methods
* Appendix B: Regression Tables
* Appendix C: Interview Topic Guide
* Notes
* Works Cited
* Index