{"id":1746,"date":"2016-10-10T00:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:51:25","slug":"professor-carol-anderson-in-u-s-news-article-donald-trumps-dismal-appeal-to-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2016\/10\/10\/professor-carol-anderson-in-u-s-news-article-donald-trumps-dismal-appeal-to-black-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Carol Anderson in ‘U.S. News’ Article: “Donald Trump\u2019s Dismal Appeal to Black Voters”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carol Anderson<\/a>,\u00a0Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, was recently quoted in a U.S. News<\/em> article “Donald Trump\u2019s Dismal Appeal to Black Voters,” written by Joesph P. Williams. \u00a0Anderson analyzes\u00a0Trump’s recent comments on contemporary race relations and his strategy\u00a0to gain support among black voters. Anderson is the author of\u00a0White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide<\/a> <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2016).\u00a0Read an excerpt of the article below or the full piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The black community understands stop-and-frisk to be “a tool of intimidation and criminalization,” Anderson says. “Again, the ‘outreach’ is not about courting black voters.”<\/p>\n

<\/em>Anderson doubts the college-educated whites Trump apparently covets would go for such a bald appeal to racial solidarity, but she argues the problem is with the messenger \u2013 in this case, a bombastic, occasionally crass, former reality-TV star \u2013 and not the message.<\/p>\n

“<\/em>If he were a more-skilled, more-nuanced politician, yes, it would work,” Anderson says. K<\/em>icking off his 1980 presidential campaign, she says, President Ronald Reagan “declared his love for states’ rights in Neshoba County, Mississippi, the site of a triple murder of civil rights workers. Reagan walked away with the white vote.”
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Coming out of the Civil Rights Movement, “the key was to use dog whistles \u2013 crime, welfare, forced busing, neighborhood schools \u2013 to trigger a Pavlovian anti-black response, without being openly racist,” Anderson explains. “It was racism with plausible deniability and it worked for years. Trump, however, didn’t dog whistle, he just barked: ‘Mexicans are rapists, criminals, and drug mules. Muslims are terrorists \u2013 ban all of them.'”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carol Anderson,\u00a0Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, was recently quoted in a U.S. News article “Donald Trump\u2019s Dismal Appeal to Black Voters,” written by Joesph P. Williams. \u00a0Anderson analyzes\u00a0Trump’s recent comments on contemporary race relations and his strategy\u00a0to gain support among black voters. Anderson is the author of\u00a0White Rage: The Unspoken Truth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}