Dog whistle politics : how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class / Ian Haney López.
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minoritie...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |