Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right - Chapters 14 - 16 Summary & Analysis

Arlie Russell Hochschild
This Study Guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Strangers in Their Own Land.

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right - Chapters 14 - 16 Summary & Analysis

Arlie Russell Hochschild
This Study Guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Strangers in Their Own Land.
This section contains 1,695 words
(approx. 5 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Study Guide

Summary

In Chapter 14, the author attempts to place the Tea Party movement in its historical context, linking it to a number of movements against “secularism, modernity, racial integration, and a culture of experts” (207) in the twentieth century. In particular, she connects it to the 1860s (in other words, the Civil War), and the 1960s (the struggle for civil rights in particular). The relevance of the 1860s to this case, she writes, is that the plantation system not only subjected black slaves to misery but also rendered poor whites excess laborers their wealthier white contemporaries could ridicule as “crackers” and “white trash” (209). The end of the plantation system brought no relief for this segment of society, as the Civil War devastated the South, and Northern carpetbaggers arrived to exploit it when the war ended. As such, poor whites suffered “condemnation from all” (209), a sentiment that...

(read more from the Chapters 14 - 16 Summary)

This section contains 1,695 words
(approx. 5 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.