White Backlash

Immigration, Race, and American Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID19987150
AuthorsM Abrajano (0000-0002-4818-3470), Zoltan L Hajnal (0000-0001-7167-780X)
Year2015
Pages241
Publication date2015-03-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueWhite backlash (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691164434.001.0001
OpenAlexW4239042262
Open LibraryOL27178531M
ISBN9780691164434
LanguageEN
Citations received26

This book provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping American politics. Using an array of data and analysis, it shows that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party. The book demonstrates that this political backlash has disquieting implications for the future of race relations in America. White Americans' concerns about Latinos and immigration have led to support for policies that are less generous and more punitive and that conflict with the preferences of much of the immigrant population. America's growing racial and ethnic diversity is leading to a greater racial divide in politics. As whites move to the right of the political spectrum, racial and ethnic minorities generally support the left. Racial divisions in partisanship and voting, as the book indicates, now outweigh divisions by class, age, gender, and other demographic measures. The book raises critical questions and concerns about how political beliefs and future elections will change the fate of America's immigrants and minorities, and their relationship with the rest of the nation

Backlash · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Immigration policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Voting · White (mutation) · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · 21st century · 74.94 migration (demography) · 89.57 political participation · Civics & Citizenship · Discrimination & Race Relations · Emigration & Immigration · emigration and immigration · Émigration et immigration · États-Unis · General · Political participation · Political Process · politics and government · Race · race relations · Social Science · united states · Whites