The double-whammy trauma
Narrative and counter-narrative during Covid-Floyd
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4849288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey C Alexander (0000-0003-3600-8023, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 177 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-70 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07255136231198536 |
| OpenAlex | W4386481131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Written in the early months of the COVID pandemic, and in the midst of the second wave of Black Lives Matters protest, this article suggests that Americans experienced these shocking social events as a double-whammy cultural trauma, as deeply troubling to their collective identity as nation. How the trauma played out would determine the near-term future of American politics. Were the poor and non-white the principal victims of the double whammy, or were white Americans and the 'hard-working middle class' actually the injured parties? Who was the trauma's perpetrator? Was it China, inadequate healthcare, government bureaucracy, or Trump and 'know-nothing' populism? The performances that provided the most felicitous answers to such questions would determine whether the country moved to the left or the right in the months before the Presidential election that would take place before year's end
Bureaucracy · Criminology · Literature · Narrative · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |