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The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region's transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed.

In this timely new book, Shane Hamilton offers a compelling account of the politics of long-haul trucking in the postwar United States and, in particular, its contribution to the rise of economic conservatism by the end of the 1970s. This work, exhaustive in its research, explains a range of critical developments in twentieth-century political economy from the perspective of trucking: from the struggles within and between various federal agencies over farm, labor and consumption policies; to advances in truck design, highway construction, refrigeration, and food packaging technologies; to the cultural development of a trucking genre within country music and Hollywood films.

Let me first thank Jeffrey Isaac for choosing our books for this exchange, and Shane Hamilton for his review. I would like to draw on Hamilton's main criticisms to consider political change in two ways: first, as it relates to political actors; and second, to political orders.

"The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump. The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. The authors document the changing politics of race and class in the age of Trump across a broad range of phenomena, showing how new forms of racialization work to alter the economic protections of whiteness while promoting some conservatives of color as models of the neoliberal regime. Through careful analyses of diverse political sites and conflicts--racially charged elections, attacks on public-sector unions, new forms of white precarity, the rise of black and brown political elites, militia uprisings, multiculturalism on the far right--they highlight new, interwoven deployments of race in the ascendant age of inequality. Using the concept of "racial transposition," the authors demonstrate how racial meanings and signification can be transferred from one group to another to shore up both neoliberalism and racial hierarchy. From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Changing Labor of Race in the New Gilded Age -- 1 "Parasites of Government": Racialized Anti-statism and White Producerism -- 2 "The Incomprehensible Malice-of Poor White America": New Racializations of White Precarity -- 3 "One of Our Own": Black Incorporations into Contemporary Conservative Politics -- 4 "A Brown Brother for Donald Trump": The Multiculturalism of the Far Right -- 5 State Abandonment and Militia Revolt: White Occupation, Native Land, and Black Lives -- Conclusion: From Racial Transposition to New Visions of Political Identity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This is an exploration of how the study of race can transform our understandings of political development and how studying political development can inform our understandings of race and racialisation.

Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens' political identities. But because of the nature of race-its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power-we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively.Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this exten