{"product_id":"white-storm-how-racism-poisoned-american-democracy-9781493086351","title":"White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA piercing examination of Americas struggle with racism and why this now threatens the survival of the nations democracy  When the U.S. Capitol was stormed in 2021  it was an attack on the very idea of America as a pluralist democracy. It was also a reminder that the worst threat to the United States today doesnt come from any foreign despot  but from domestic racism. In The White Storm  the journalist and author Martin Gelin looks back at two decades as a political correspondent and three centuries of American history to understand this moment of crisis. In the vein of Alexis de Tocqueville or Tony Judt  fellow Europeans who traveled America searching for answers to its political contradictions  this is a journey across time and space  from Thomas Jeffersons Monticello to the slave plantations of Louisiana  from mass prisons in rural Arizona to memorials for lynching victims in Alabama.  The book reveals how every step forward for Black Americans is met with a fierce backlash from white Americans  taking two recurring forms: violent extremism and a flight from the commons. The white backlash always grows in proportion to the black advances. After Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election  a Black man at a polling station in Detroit said: \"We used to pick cotton  now we pick presidents.\" It is precisely this Black agency that white nationalists refuse to accept.  The White Storm reveals how racism has permeated almost every significant conflict in Americas past. Now it threatens American democracy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646695301173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1493086359","price":23.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781493086351.jpg?v=1781677407","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/white-storm-how-racism-poisoned-american-democracy-9781493086351","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}