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POLITICS, LAW, AND GOVERNMENT

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING

Making Trump Possible Political Speech Built for

Causes and Consequences as a Weapon the Middle Class
of the New Populist Politics Microaggression in a Inequality in America’s
TIMOTHY J. BARNETT Changing Racial and Cities and Suburbs
Ethnic Environment LORI RIVERSTONE-NEWELL
SYLVIA GONZALEZ-GORMAN

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By focusing on Donald Trump’s 2016
candidacy, this exploration will help This book explores how central and
readers understand the consequences of Provides a penetrating examination suburban cities in the United States
political dysfunction and the challenges of how political rhetoric from have been continually built, shaped, and
of moving toward best-practice reforms. public officials creates tensions via reshaped to meet the needs and desires

FEATURES: microaggression cues due to changing of the American middle class—resulting
in the racial, political, and economic
• Examines Donald Trump’s candidacy demographics, campaign rhetoric, and conditions in our cities today.
through the lenses of education, the use of social media.
culture, politics, and economics FEATURES
FEATURES:
• Offers a sober reassessment of the • Explains how hostile rhetoric by • Offers readers insight into the strong
roles education and culture must play public officials can lead to the connection of the middle class to
in a healthy political enterprise the city across history, from the
marginalization of groups and a
• Exposes how both major political polarizing environment colonial era to our modern-day living
parties are governed by habit, environments
impoverished by faulty moral • Suggests that political discourse • Examines how the growing
is used to accentuate cultural
introspection, empowered by importance and influence of the
coalition largesse, and manipulated differences due to changing middle class on the politics and
demographics in the United States
by political gamesmanship economic conditions of the city
• Illustrates that microaggression
• Explores the best ways to deal with cues are a pervasive and damaging in past eras have given rise to the
the political slurs and pejorative conditions of the poor and working
terms that are increasingly used component of the U.S. political class today
culture
in counterproductive ways to
undermine dialogue and polarize the
electorate SYLVIA GONZALEZ-GORMAN, LORI RIVERSTONE-NEWELL, PhD, is
PhD, is assistant professor at the associate professor of political science
at Illinois State University.
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
TIMOTHY J. BARNETT, PhD, is a Brownsville, TX.
tenured full professor of political
science at Jacksonville State University
in northeast Alabama.
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