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

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by Banks, Antoine J., 1979- author.
Call Number 305.800973 23
Publication Date 2014
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. Antoine J. 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 - lab and Internet survey experiments and nationally representative surveys - 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"--
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North Carolina women : their lives and times / edited by Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen.

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by Gillespie, Michele.
Call Number 305.4
Publication Date 2014
Summary North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women-women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women f.
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Anger and racial politics : the emotional foundation of racial attitudes in America / Antoine J. Banks, University of Maryland.

North Carolina women : their lives and times / edited by Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen.