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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History - Hardcover

Schultz, Kevin M.

 
9780226824369: Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226824365 ISBN 13: 9780226824369
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals―and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.

If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate them for serving as capitalism’s beard. Even liberals hate liberals―either because they can’t manage to overcome their own prejudices, or precisely because they’re so self-hating.
 
This is the starting point for Kevin M. Schultz’s lively new history of white liberals in the United States. He efficiently lays out the array of objections to liberals―ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian, and more―in a historical frame that shows how protean the concept has been throughout the past hundred years. It turns out, he declares, that how you define a “white liberal” is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test revealing your own anxieties.
 
Sharply assessing how decades of attacks on liberals and liberalism have steadily hollowed out the center of American political life, Schultz also explains precisely what needs to be done to avoid digging ourselves even further into the hole of polarization. The ultimate goal, he argues, is to achieve political fragmentation that will fuel the rise of a true multiparty system, where ideology will matter more, not less.

With a tight command of postwar American history and a spirited voice, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand―and envision a way forward in―the complicated landscape of American politics.

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About the Author

Kevin M. Schultz is professor and chair of history at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He is the author of Buckley and Mailer and Tri-Faith America.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226824365
ISBN 13 
9780226824369
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256