Thursday, January 9, 2014

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian Haney López (University of California, Berkeley). Dog Whistle Politics (Oxford University Press, 2014).

"Read this book to understand how dog whistle politics enables the wealth gap to stay the same and even to get worse not just for blacks or other people of color but for the white working class as well. As Haney López demonstrates, the vocabulary of race has changed. Nonetheless, race is still skillfully used to distract our attention from ongoing and pernicious disparities in economic opportunities." 

—Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School