White supremacy, white counter-revolutionary politics, and the rise of Donald Trump

Joshua Inwood

Environment and Planning C, 2019, vol. 37, issue 4, 579-596

Abstract: To understand and contextualize Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, we must place his election in the context of a white counter-revolutionary politics that emerging from the specific geographic configurations of the US racial state. While academics and political commentators have correctly located the election of Trump in the context of white supremacy, I argue we need to coordinate our understanding of white supremacy and the electoral politics that fueled Trump's rise in the context of anti-Black racism by examining how the US racial state turns to whiteness to prevent change. Throughout the development of the United States, whiteness has long stood as a bulwark against progressive and revolutionary change so much so that when the US racial state is in economic and political crisis, bourgeoisie capitalism appeals to the white middle and working classes to address that crisis.

Keywords: Anti-Black racism; white supremacy; racialized capital; counter-revolution; electoral politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/2399654418789949

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