The new minority : white working class politics in an age of immigration and inequality / Justin Gest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gest, Justin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Political activity--Great Britain.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity--United States.

Working class--Political activity.

Right-wing extremists.

White people.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

United States.

White people--Great Britain--Politics and government.

White people--United States--Politics and government.

White people--Great Britain--Social conditions.

White people--United States--Social conditions.

Right-wing extremists--Great Britain.

Right-wing extremists--United States.

White people--Politics and government.

White people--Social condition.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Political Marginality in the Post-Traumatic City 1

2 The New Minority: A Counter-narrative and its Politics 20

3 Peripheral Visions: The Politics of Displacement in East London 39

4 After the Fall: The Politics of Insecurity in Youngstown, Ohio 74

5 Institutions: Structures of a Crumbling Polity 116

6 Identities: Prisms of Culture and Class 134

7 Deprivations: Alternative Understandings of Social Hierarchy 149

8 Measuring Marginality: American and British Support for t Radical Right 173

9 The Untouchables: Who Can Appeal to the White Working Class? 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gest, Justin, author. New minority.

ISBN:

9780190632540

0190632542

9780190632557

0190632550

OCLC:

948339104