Preface Learning about Racism at Harvard Law School
Introduction Racial Politics and the Middle Class
Chapter One The Southern Strategy and the GOP's Rise as the White
Man's Party
Chapter Two Beyond Hate: Strategic Racism
Chapter Three The Wrecking Begins: Ronald Reagan
Chapter Four Colorblindness and Whites as Racial Victims
Chapter Five Updating the Whistle: Clinton and W.
Chapter Six How Conservatives Get Away with Racism
Chapter Seven Makers and Takers
Chapter Eight What's the Matter with White Voters?
Chapter Nine Obama's Post-Racial Strategy
Conclusion To End Dog Whistle Politics
Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the
University of California, Berkeley. An incisive voice on white
identity since the publication of his path-breaking book White by
Law (1996), he remains at the forefront of conversations about race
in modern America. A past visiting professor at Yale and Harvard
law schools, in 2011 he was awarded the Alphonse Fletcher
Fellowship, given to scholars whose work promotes the
integration goals of Brown v. Board of Education.
"This is one of those books that should be required reading for
anyone and everyone who is struggling to understand how and why
political elites succeed, time and again, in persuading poor and
working class whites to support regressive policies that are a boon
for corporations but actually harm them and wreck the middle class.
The answer to the riddle has far more to do with race than most
want to acknowledge. But it isn't old-fashioned, malevolent
racism
that's to blame. No, as Haney López brilliantly and painstakingly
lays bare, what is unraveling our nation is not bad people, but a
stubborn refusal to deal openly and honestly with the reality of
how race
operates today." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim
Crow
"Read this book to understand how dog whistle politics enables the
wealth gap to stay the same and even to get worse not just for
blacks or other people of color but for the white working class as
well. As Haney López demonstrates, the vocabulary of race has
changed. Nonetheless, race is still skillfully used to distract our
attention from ongoing and pernicious disparities in economic
opportunities." --Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor, Harvard
Law
School, and author of The Miner's Canary
"A brilliant guide to modern politics, for anyone who wants to
understand how outright racist appeals morphed into the genteel
rhetoric of 'states rights' and from there into today's 'defund
Obamacare' -- and why Democrats too often collude in rather than
repudiate dog whistle politics." --Joan Walsh, Salon.com and MSNBC,
and author of What's the Matter With White People
"Grounded in history rather than theory, this is recommended to
readers engaged in today's political discourse." --Library Journal
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