(See The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Boston Globe. Hidden beneath their right-wing hostility to almost all government intervention, she argues, is the fear that the federal government is an instrument to their displacement by other classes and races. She focused on what she calls their “deep story”- a feels-as-if story of their difficult struggle for the American Dream. Based on intensive interviews with Tea Party enthusiasts in Louisiana- who later became ardent supporters of Donald Trump- and conducted over five years, Arlie tried to scale an “empathy wall” to learn how to see, think and feel as they do. of SociologyĪrlie Hochschild's most recent research focuses on the rise of the American right-t he topic of her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (finalist for the 2016 National Book Award).
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