BUILDING PATHWAYS THROUGH DISCOMFORT: NURTURING ALLYSHIP IN THE ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Ng asserts that after a year of polls predicting a land-slide victory for Hillary Clinton, late in the evening of 8 November 2016, Donald Trump was declared the 45th president of the United States. People were shocked by the degree to which the outcome diverged from the polls--but I was not. I had s...

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Published in:Asian American policy review 2021-01, Vol.31 (1), p.80-93
Main Author: Ng, Melody
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian Americans
Election districts
Elections
Epidemics
Homeless people
Interpersonal relations
Nazi groups
Politics
Polls & surveys
Presidents
Redistricting
Social aspects
United States
Voter suppression
Voting
White supremacy
Working class
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Summary:Ng asserts that after a year of polls predicting a land-slide victory for Hillary Clinton, late in the evening of 8 November 2016, Donald Trump was declared the 45th president of the United States. People were shocked by the degree to which the outcome diverged from the polls--but I was not. I had spent the last year wading into fetid comments sections and asking people--within and outside of my circles--about their take on the candidates and the issues. Pre-election, think pieces picking apart the presumed monolithic interests of different ethnic and class voting blocs proliferated. Post-election, many were devoted to analyzing the white working class and how they swung the 2016 election in Trump's favor--abetted by a political terrain engineered by US Congressional Republicans over the past decade via gerrymandering, voter suppression policies, and the obstruction of then-President Obama's efforts to fill over 100 lifelong federal judgeships
ISSN:1062-1830
2162-5395