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Race and the origins of American neoliberalism

Title: Race and the origins of American neoliberalism / Randolph Hohle.
Author: Hohle, Randolph.
Publication: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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xiii, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book explores the relation between race and neoliberalism in the US, arguing that the origins of neoliberalism in the US are rooted in the constellation of cultural, political, and economic developments in the white response to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Analyzing the cultural politics that embedded a racially coded language of white=private/black=public into social policy, the book shows that while the white response did not create neoliberalism directly, it did provide the context for white support in favor of privatizing public works, fiscal austerity to control local budgets, and a monastic opposition to taxes in the United States"--
"Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this question is race. This book argues that the white response to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s inadvertently created the conditions for emergence of American neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the result of an unlikely alliance of an elite liberal business class and local segregationists that sought to preserve white privilege in the civil rights era. The white response drew from a language of neoliberalism, as they turned inward to redefine what it meant to be a good white citizen. The language of neoliberalism depoliticized class tensions by getting whites to identify as white first, and as part of a social class second. This book explores the four pillars of neoliberal policy, austerity, privatization, deregulation, and tax cuts, and explains how race created the pretext for the activation of neoliberal policy. Neoliberalism is not about free markets. It is about controlling the state to protect elite white economic privileges"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 12

Uniform Title

Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 12.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.

Call Number

JBE 15-563

ISBN

9781138832558 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1138832553 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781315735962 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015005068

OCLC

883648831

Author

Hohle, Randolph.

Title

Race and the origins of American neoliberalism / Randolph Hohle.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 12

Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.

Research Call Number

JBE 15-563

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