Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration.

Halter, Marilyn

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“…3 Trump's campaign slogan, and more pointedly, promise to "Make American Great Again," draws upon the long durée of "racial resentment and anti-Black affect" among White voters (Weller & Junn, 2018, p. 436). Arguably, Trump's ascendancy is just the latest example of White countermobilizations to reassert their dominance following gains by Blacks and other minoritized groups in the aftermath of Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, and waves of immigration at the turn of the 20th century (Bush, 1999;Foner, 1982;Marx, 1998;Perman, 1984;Rable, 2007;Reimers & Reimers, 1998;Skrentny, 1996).…”

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Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy: Making the Case for Study/Struggle

Williams

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2021

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This essay highlights the limits of liberal reform policies designed to increase access to higher education for minoritized and marginalized groups. First, we discuss Trump’s higher education agenda, focusing on his antipathy toward these populations and his commitment to White supremacy. We then focus on affirmative action in college admissions as an exemplar of a liberal racial equity policy, sketching its history, which illustrates its anemic effect, and White countermobilization against change that existed long before Trump. Next, we detail Trump’s efforts to eliminate this policy, which is part of the same populist, ethno-nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Black ideological campaign that has galvanized White voters across time. Ultimately, we argue that unbridled power won’t yield to liberal reforms. As such, we shift our focus to how higher education might be reimagined as a site of transformation, offering a series of provocations for a new horizon of racial equity in universities and society.

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