Full Description
In the wake of Donald J. Trump's unprecedented victory and his administration's multi-pronged attacks on an array of vulnerable populations, a diverse collection of scholars was asked to document the ways in which marginalized peoples have experienced the first years of Trump mayhem. The essays in this volume ask us to think through tough narratives of exclusion, exile, and pain. The challenge in this book is to represent the unrepresentable, to document in chilling detail how Trump, his allies in government, and his unshakeable base have weaponized the culture war and threatened the ideals of the Republic. This book invites us to experience the scarifying perspective of the marginalized Other, to remember to honor all our most human stories that, woven together, make up the collective 'us'; the collective 'U.S.' The editors also hope this collection suggests a way forward, a way to defeat American nativism and a way to end the war on those of us who are, on this sad day, our nation's public enemies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Driving Home, in Reverse
Kimberly Dark
Dialogue 1
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
Introduction: Bodily Experiences in a Trumpian World
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
Dialogue 2
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
1. A Trump-Haunted Landscape
Amy Burt
Dialogue 3
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
2. Black Women's Embodied Identities at the Nexus of Political Movements
Diane Forbes Berthoud
Dialogue 4
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
3. Airport (In)Security
Eun Young Lee and Billy Huff
Dialogue 5
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
4. Violent, Oppressed, and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination
Hadia Mubarak and Naved Bakali
Dialogue 6
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
5. Necessity, Uncertainty, and the ACA: Health Insurance Coverage in the Age of Trump
Jillian Tullis
Dialogue 7
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
6. Resilience Isn't a Single Skill: International Students Cope with the Trump Rhetoric
Ana X. de la Serna
Dialogue 8
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
7. Living and Relating Queerly in the Post-Trump World
Stacy Holman Jones
Dialogue 9
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
8. Opportunities to Unsilence: Walking the Political Line at Home
Kristen E. Okamoto and Sonia R. Ivancic
Dialogue 10
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
9. Not/My President: Presidential Race in Southern Black/African American and White American Families
Robyn R. Jardine and Bethany Simmons
Dialogue 11
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
10. Intercultural Relationships in a Post-Trump World: Mediating and Mitigating
Jennifer L. Erdely
Dialogue 12
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
11. Conclusion: Reap the whirlwind: Identity, Intersectionality, and Politics in Trump's Wake
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
Discussion Questions
Christine Salkin Davis and Jonathan L. Crane
Notes on Contributors
