A Nation Dispossessed: The Tea Party Movement and Race

Critical Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 495-509

  Zeskind, Leonard ^a  

^a Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights   (United States)

Author keywords

nationalism; racism; Tea Party; Tea Party movement; white dispossession; white majority fears; white nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863757678     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920511431852     Document Type: Article

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