Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American Politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of Anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality.
Drawing on survey data from the last forty years, experiments, and rhetoric analysis, Phoenix finds that - from Reagan to Trump - black Americans register significantly less Anger than their whi.
Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American Politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of Anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality
