ISBN10: 1580469361, ISBN13: 9781580469364, [publisher: University of Rochester Press] Hardcover First Edition Rochester. 2018. October 2018. University of Rochester Press . 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781580469364. Gender and Race in American History . 374 pages. hardcover. keywords: Politics & Economics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. During this contentious election, US citizens turned to history and historical narratives to make the case for their candidate of choice. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency. Yet the election was also historic in the sense that it generated sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles, while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. Gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotyped Mexican men -- and men of other immigrant and minority groups -- as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump's misogynistic rhetoric and the iconic ...

ISBN10: 1580469361, ISBN13: 9781580469364, [publisher: Univ of Rochester Pr] Hardcover 336 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
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