The Hidden Perils of Resurgent White Supremacy in the Trump Era
Sociologist Tricia Rose discusses the resurgence of white supremacist trends in the Trump era and what they mean for American society and political life in the near future.
The current US political landscape has become increasingly hospitable and encouraging for racist, anti-immigrant, and white supremacist thinking, policy, and political and legal appointments. But is this moment a dramatic break from racial politics over the past forty years—as many suggest—or could the liberal politics of “colorblindness” have helped usher it in? In this lecture, director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Tricia Rose, discusses the resurgence of white supremacist trends in the Trump era and what they mean for American society and political life in the near future.
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Tricia Rose is Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and associate dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives at Brown University. An internationally known scholar of post-Civil Rights black US culture, popular music, social issues, gender, and sexuality, she is the author of…
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