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The author examines The Politics of Losing: Trump, The Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment by Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estepwere in investigating the changing terrain of White "identity politics."

Issues of racism, nationalism, and revolution are at the core of the humanist struggle for social justice. This article, initially a plenary address at the historic 2017 Association for Humanist Sociology Conference in Havana Cuba, presents a series of guiding questions on these issues for progressive scholars and activists in these troubled times.

An introduction to a collection of essays on whiteness notes that "whiteness studies" is not really a new phenomenon despite its emergence in its current incarnation in the 1980s & 1990s, but its explicit focus on whiteness as a subject of study & that name to describe the field are new. A sociology of knowledge perspective is deemed useful in shedding light on the rise of whiteness studies in terms of why whiteness had been so long ignored in the sociology of race & ethnic relations & the link between its advent & broader trends in society & that sociological work. It is suggested that the idea of whiteness studies emerged as the result of social change, ie, new social contexts (eg, the "crisis" of whiteness) & new intellectual perspectives within the academy. In this light, the implications of whiteness studies for the sociology of race & ethnic relations are critically assessed. Key insights on white racial identity -- the invisibility & socially constructed character of whiteness -- are elaborated. It is seen that the mainstreaming of whiteness & white racial unconsciousness interact to mutually reinforce each other in a manner that has created an unexamined core of US society. It is contended that the conceptual nature of "whiteness" is problematic, & like race, it is a socially constructed category reflecting social relationships &, as such, cannot be "understood apart from racialized social systems." Attention turns to the impact of whiteness on US intergroup relations, highlighting its role in conjunction with the "color-blind" ideology in the reproduction of white hegemony. Political effects of combining color-blindness & white transparency are addressed. The crisis of whiteness is next considered in terms of how it has become increasingly hard for it to remain the invisible & unexamined center of US society & what this means for the development of white identity. Research directions for the sociology of whiteness are offered in the context of outlining the book's goals. J. Zendejas