Date of Completion
4-30-2018
Embargo Period
4-27-2028
Keywords
Conservatism, Media, Political Theory, Race, Racialization, Whiteness
Major Advisor
Jane Gordon
Associate Advisor
Jeffrey Dudas
Associate Advisor
Kristin Kelly
Associate Advisor
Fred Lee
Associate Advisor
Lewis Gordon
Field of Study
Political science
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Open Access
Campus Access
Abstract
This dissertation explores the role that the discourses of racialization played in shaping U.S conservatism. Through an analysis of the leading conservative periodical, National Review, from 1955-2004, I argue that U.S. conservatism developed a white racial identity politics by actively pitting whites above people of color. By examining the discourse of racialization of blacks during the civil rights movement, East Asians during the Vietnam war, and the immigration debate during the 1980s through the early 2000s, this project examines how writers utilized the periodical National Review to forge and mobilize a distinct white racial political identity central to the discourse of U.S. conservatism.
Recommended Citation
Del Visco, Stephen, "National Review and White Racial Identity Politics in U.S. Conservatism" (2018). Doctoral Dissertations. 1768.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/1768