White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics

by Zoltan L Hajnal, Marisa Abrajano, Zoltan L. Hajnal

Book Overview

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164436
• ISBN13: 9780691164434
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"