Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity

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Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics.

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"In exploring the contemporary politics of whiteness, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes offer a powerful analysis of white precarity embedded in an antiracist critique of white supremacy in multicultural times. Producers, Parasites, Patriots is a necessary and welcome work."Cristina Beltrn, New York University

"In the age of neoliberal precarity, the authors argue, traditional protections of whiteness no longer prevent government workers from being depicted as parasites, and conservatives of color, along with languages of civil rights and multiculturalism, get resignified as models of conservative patriotism. This is a well-written and detailed examination of the ways racial identity gets transposed."CHOICE

"It offers a clear and unique understanding of how the state of contemporary politics necessitates a rethinking about the ideological barriers that we often assume polemically separate the political left and right."Sociology of Health & Illness

"HoSang and Lowndes have opened-up space for dialogue around race and class in the present age. In doing so, they bring to light the limitations of liberal anti-racism."New Political Science

"Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes state in their fascinating new book Producers, Parasites, Patriots that only by providing a more critical understanding of contemporary right-wing politics can we be prepared to resist the growth of far-right movements."Political Science Quarterly

"Producers, Parasites and Patriots offers compelling insight for a general public trying to make sense of the dynamic,complex, and at times contradictory behavior of the American political right."Journal of African American Studies

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Daniel Martinez HoSang is associate professor at Yale University appointed in the American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration programs. He is author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California.

Joseph E. Lowndes is associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon. He is author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism.