Abstract

"Racism" and "white privilege" have outlived their usefulness as concepts and judgments. Neither term explains what's going on in America today. Two factors now necessitate a conceptual shift.First, the unexpected election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States. Mainstream news reporters, political pundits, and social media commentators now have to discover and explore what they overlooked during their coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign: the needs, issues, interests, and narratives of white middle-class and working-class Americans.1Second, Hillary Clinton's categorization of Trump supporters as "the basket of deplorables"; "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic";...