White supremacy, white counter-revolutionary politics, and the rise of Donald Trump
@article{Inwood2018WhiteSW, title={White supremacy, white counter-revolutionary politics, and the rise of Donald Trump}, author={Joshua F. J. Inwood}, journal={Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space}, year={2018}, volume={37}, pages={579 - 596} }
To understand and contextualize Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, we must place his election in the context of a white counter-revolutionary politics that emerging from the specific geographic configurations of the US racial state. While academics and political commentators have correctly located the election of Trump in the context of white supremacy, I argue we need to coordinate our understanding of white supremacy and the electoral politics that fueled Trump's rise…
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