%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Racists,¡± ¡°Class Anxieties,¡± Hegemonic Racism, and Democracy in Trump¡¯s America
%A Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
%J Social Currents
%@ 2329-4973
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2329496518804558
%X In this address, I challenge dominant narratives explaining the rise of Trumpism in America. Specifically, I dispute four ideas that have emerged to account for Trump¡¯s election. First, I suggest that understanding his election as the product of the political activities of the ¡°racists¡± severely limits our understanding of racism as a collective phenomenon. Second, I question the notion that Trump¡¯s working class support was due to ¡°class anxieties.¡± Third, I argue that despite the rise in old-fashioned racism in Trump¡¯s America, the new racism and its ideology of color-blindness are still hegemonic. Last, I ask analysts and activists alike to realize that the fight for democracy in the turbulent times we are living cannot be equated with an effort to return to ¡°politics as usual,¡± politics that have maintained the matrix of domination in place
%K Trump
%K Trumpism
%K white working-class
%K racism
%K class anxieties
%K democracy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496518804558