{"id":50776,"date":"2016-12-18T01:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T01:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50776"},"modified":"2016-12-18T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:17:54","slug":"the-one-theyve-been-waiting-for-white-fear-and-the-rise-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50776","title":{"rendered":"The One They\u2019ve Been Waiting for: White Fear and the Rise of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The One They\u2019ve Been Waiting for: White Fear and the Rise of Donald Trump<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Politics of Color: commentary & reflections on race, ethnicity, and politics<\/a>
\n2016-11-27<\/p>\n

Linda Alvarez<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nCalifornia State University, Northridge<\/em><\/p>\n

Ivy A. Melgar Cargile<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nCalifornia State University, Bakersfield<\/em><\/p>\n

Natasha Altema McNeely<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nUniversity of Texas, Rio Grande Valley<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa Pringle<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nClaremont Graduate University, Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Patricia Posey<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrea Silva<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nUniversity of North Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

Carrie Skulley<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nAlbright College, Reading, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

On November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump<\/a> was elected the 45th President of the United States<\/a>. Many, including members of the Republican party were shocked that a man openly propagating racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia would now be the leader of the most powerful country in the world. How did this happen? While several factors contributed to Donald Trump\u2019s alarming success, there is no doubt that tapping into American racism and sexism were integral to his victory. However, Trump\u2019s election rhetoric alone was not enough to ignite an entire sector of the U.S. population. Instead, Trump built his campaign on a historical culture of white fear of \u201cthe other.\u201d Through this rhetoric, The Trump campaign united white America in particular, under a banner of fear. Trump\u2019s campaign was based on igniting a \u201cmoral panic<\/em><\/a>\u2014an upwelling of intense emotion and feeling over conditions that challenge people\u2019s deep seated values and threatens the established social order.\u201d Yet, this panic was not created by the Trump campaign. Instead, his campaign was able to capitalize on an already salient white fear in the United States- a white fear present since the founding, that resurfaced in a post 9\/11<\/a> context, and was fed by the rhetoric of \u201cuncontrollable other,\u201d set on destroying the \u201cAmerican\u201d way of life. The extreme nationalism, fear, and xenophobia ignited by 9\/11, the challenge to entrenched white privilege posed by the election of Barak Obama<\/a>, the adoption of relatively liberal immigration policy, and the emergence of the #BlackLivesMatter<\/a> movement all threatened the status quo that white Americans have enjoyed in this country since its founding. Trump\u2019s rallying cry to \u201cMake America Great Again<\/a>,\u201d was about more than an economic policy, it was a literal call to regain and reinstate<\/a> white supremacy<\/a><\/em>. Here, we argue against suggestions that the Trump campaign and subsequent win has created backlash and erased our post-racial America. We argue that this backlash was decades in the making and that a \u201cpost-racial America\u201d has never existed. Further, our policymakers and institutions have been continuously changed and challenged to preserve white supremacy structures in America\u00a0\u00a0 Fear and hatred of the \u201cother\u201d has been codified since the founding of this country like the Pogroms against First Nations, slavery and later Jim Crow laws<\/a>, Women as Property, the Chinese Exclusion Act<\/a>, and Japanese internment camps<\/a>. These are examples of white supremacy systemized into law, and entrenched in our culture to create and maintain a status quo that upholds white power<\/em><\/a>. This article delves deeper into the continuous effort by white nationalist to marginalize vulnerable groups and the Trumps campaign\u2019s ability to exploit these institutional changes into a victory. The fa\u00e7ade of a \u201cpost-racial\u201d society was created and reified after the election of the first mixed race president and congealed among sectors of white America. we begin this discussion with the break in our \u201cpost-racial\u201d fa\u00e7ade after the attacks on September 11, 2001<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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