Anger and racial politics : the emotional foundation of racial attitudes in America / Antoine J. Banks, University of Maryland.

ISBN:

9781139922852

9781107279247

9781139899437

Title:

Anger and racial politics : the emotional foundation of racial attitudes in America / Antoine J. Banks, University of Maryland.

Author:

Banks, Antoine J., 1979- author.

Personal Author:

Banks, Antoine J., 1979- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. A theory of anger and contemporary white racial attitudes -- 2. The emotional foundation of white racial attitudes -- 3. The emotional content in racialized campaign ads primes white racial attitudes -- 4. The public's anger: racial polarization and opinions toward health care reform -- 5. The Tea Party's angry rhetoric and the 2010 midterm elections -- Conclusion.

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Subject Term:

Race -- Political aspects -- United States.

Racism -- Political aspects -- United States.

Anger -- Political aspects -- United States.

White people -- United States -- Attitudes.

Race -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.

Racisme -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.

Colère -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.

Race -- Political aspects

Race relations -- Political aspects

Racism -- Political aspects

White people -- Attitudes

Einstellung

Gefühl

Rassendiskriminierung

Rassismus

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.

États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Aspect politique.

United States

USA

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=711651

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2014.

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Summary

Politicians, scholars, and pundits often disagree about whether race has been injected into a political campaign or policy debate. Some have suspected that race sometimes enters into politics even when political elites avoid using racial cues or racially coded language. Anger and Racial Politics provides a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional conditions under which this effect might happen. Banks asserts that making whites angry - no matter the basis for their anger - will make ideas about race more salient to them. He argues that anger, and not fear or other negative emotions, provides the foundation upon which contemporary white racial attitudes are structured. Drawing on a multi-method approach, he demonstrates that anger plays an important role in enhancing the impact of race on whites' preferences for putting an end to affirmative action, repealing health care reform, hanging the confederate flag high, and voting for Tea Party-backed candidates.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This book makes an important contribution to the study of race in American politics, arguing persuasively that anger plays a key role in activating symbolic racism. Building on groundbreaking works such as Tali Mendelberg's The Race Card (CH, Dec'01, 39-2467), Donald Kinder and Cindy Kam's Us Against Them (CH, Aug'10, 47-7142), and the work of David O. Sears and colleagues, Banks (Univ. of Maryland, College Park) finds that policies or campaigns in which anger is a prominent feature leads those scoring high in symbolic racism to place a much greater emphasis on what they perceive to be racial cues. Importantly, the anger does not have to be tied to explicitly racial concerns; simply triggering anger is enough to make the racial connection. An interesting albeit unsurprising finding is that those low in symbolic racism can also be motivated by anger (e.g., to support the Affordable Care Act more strongly) but only in some cases, and the effect is not as strong as it is on those high in symbolic racism. The debate over symbolic racism continues to rage, but Banks offers strong evidence for those who find that race continues to be a powerful influence in American politics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --Andrew L. Aoki, Augsburg College