Title: American blindspot : race, class, religion, and the Trump presidency /
Authors: Marti, Gerardo, 1965-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Trump, Donald,; Presidents United States Election; Social classes Political aspects United States.; Religion and politics United States; United States Politics and government; United States Race relations History; United States Religion; United States Economic policy
Contents: The unexpected president: the 2016 Trump election and white evangelical support -- Deep cultural background on racial inequality: slavery and territorial expansion in early America -- Racialized power and constraints of freedom after slavery: failure of Reconstruction -- A "True American" identity: immigration and the restriction of citizenship -- Business-friendly evangelicalism: theological turn of mid-Twentieth-Century christianity -- The establishment of free-market conservatism: religious imperatives of Reagan-era economics -- Reactionary politics of the Tea Party: Barack Obama and his critics -- Increased concentration of elite wealth through asset growth: the 2007 market collapse and the rule of finance -- Identity politics and evangelical support: Trump's white christian nationalism -- Conclusion: ethnoreligious structures of inequality in the Trump presidency.