Book contents
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
4 - The Sirens of White Nationalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2020
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
Summary
In Aman v. Cort Furniture Rental Corp., a federal court of appeals found the following remarks directed at black employees to reveal discriminatory intent: “another one,” “one of them,” “that one in there,” and “all of you.”2 None of these terms even mention race, but, as the court explained, “while discriminatory conduct persists, violators have learned not to leave the proverbial ‘smoking gun’ behind. As one court has recognized, [d]efendants of even minimal sophistication will neither admit discriminatory animus [n]or leave a paper trail demonstrating it.” Thus, in the court’s view, we don’t need to hear openly racist statements to know that racism exists.
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- WhitelashUnmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box, pp. 61 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020