American blindspot : race, class, religion, and the Trump presidency /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Marti, Gerardo, 1965- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Subjects:	Trump, Donald, > 1946- Presidents > United States > Election > 2016. United States > Politics and government > 2017- Social classes > Political aspects > United States. United States > Race relations > History > 21st century. United States > Religion > 21st century. Religion and politics > United States. United States > Economic policy > 2009- Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The unexpected president: the 2016 Trump election and white evangelical support
Deep cultural background on racial inequality: slavery and territorial expansion in early America
Racialized power and constraints of freedom after slavery: failure of Reconstruction
A "True American" identity: immigration and the restriction of citizenship
Business-friendly evangelicalism: theological turn of mid-Twentieth-Century christianity
The establishment of free-market conservatism: religious imperatives of Reagan-era economics
Reactionary politics of the Tea Party: Barack Obama and his critics
Increased concentration of elite wealth through asset growth: the 2007 market collapse and the rule of finance
Identity politics and evangelical support: Trump's white christian nationalism
Conclusion: ethnoreligious structures of inequality in the Trump presidency.