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DESCRIPTION:Cedric de Leon\, Associate Professor and Chair\, Department of 
 Sociology\, Providence College\n\nTalk: Crisis Politics: Comparing the dec
 line of “inclusive” racial Democracy in the U.S. Secession Crisis and the 
 Election of Donald Trump\n\n Abstract. Existing explanations of political 
 crises suggest that the latter express or reflect social relations on the 
 ground\; party politics\, by contrast\, play a limited or passive role. Hi
 storians of the so-called “fundamentalist” school argue that the U.S. Sece
 ssion Crisis and Civil War were caused by the conflict over slavery\, espe
 cially the threat to the largest slaveowners’ economic interests. Likewise
 \, research on populism and the contemporary Far Right tends to emphasize 
 the causal role of economic downturns\, voter alienation\, and changing cl
 ass relations. But existing theories are hard pressed to explain the timin
 g of such crises. For example\, the conflict over slavery had existed in t
 he U.S. colonies and Early Republic for over a century without a civil war
  – why then did the U.S. Secession Crisis take hold in 1861 and not before
 ? We might ask a similar question of ethnic nationalism: why\, despite the
  longstanding dislocations of neoliberalization\, has the Far Right come t
 o power only now? Drawing on the “modern revisionist” school of U.S. histo
 riography\, social scientists of the European Far Right like Herbert Kitsc
 helt and Jack Veugelers\, and neo-Gramscian sociologists of racial hegemon
 y and political parties\, I argue in contrast that the U.S. Secession Cris
 is and the election of Donald Trump were the endpoints of sequences of par
 tisan reactions and counter-reactions that undercut the hegemony of “inclu
 sive” forms of racial democracy\, namely\, those of a slaveholding republi
 c in the historical case and postracial neoliberalism in the contemporary 
 case.\n
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LOCATION:Peterson 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460
  rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Cedric de Leon\, Crisis Politics: Comparing the decline of “inclusi
 ve” racial Democracy in the U.S. Secession Crisis and the Election of Dona
 ld Trump
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 litics-comparing-decline-inclusive-racial-democracy-us-secession-crisis-an
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