Trump, Race, and Demagogy

Y. G.M. Lulat

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17203-8_26

Trump, Race, and Demagogy

Y. G.M. Lulat

Africana and American Studies

University at Buffalo

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Abstract

There has been a resurgence of racialized demagogy in recent years in the USA but clothed in right-wing populism, represented most clearly by the demagogic politics of the self-proclaimed billionaire, Donald J. Trump. By means of an interdisciplinary combination of current and archival library and online-based primary and secondary sources (informed by perspectives from a pluralistic non-positivistic qualitative methodology), the task of this chapter is to, first, document how this racism was manifest (especially in the face of denials by his supporters, including, most ironically, by some from among those very groups who were the target of his racism), and, second, to indicate its political functions today in a neoliberal capitalist democracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Globalization, Human Rights and Populism
Subtitle of host publication	Reimagining People, Power and Places
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	531-554
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031172038
ISBN (Print)	9783031172021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17203-8_26
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

Keywords

Barack Obama
Central Park Five
Christopher Columbus
Donald Trump
Immigration
Islamophobia
Jim Crow
Mexico
Muslims
Racism
Scapegoats

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