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Nasty Women and Bad Hombres

Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist strugglesrepresented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Daywhile Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: nasty women vs. deplorables; bad hombres and Crooked Hillary; analyzing the struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of memory, performance, narrative, and social media.

Contributors examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotypes Mexican menand men of other immigrant and minority groupsas sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump's misogynistic rhetoric and the iconic power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's authorsboth journalists and academicsengage with prominent debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement.

CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W. CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at Rochester Institute of Technology.

To our daughters

Annalea, Sabina, and Mirabelle

and also, Eddie

CONTENTS

Deborah L. Hughes

Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell

Jane Caputi

Roy Schwartzman and Jenni M. Simon

Joshua D. Martin

O. Nicholas Robertson

Beth L. Boser and R. Brandon Anderson

Barbara Winslow

Michael J. Brown

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Ana Stevenson

Joanna Weiss

Mark Ward Sr.

Jiyoung Lee, Carol M. Liebler, and Neal J. Powless

Pamela Aronson

Leora Tanenbaum

Steve Almond

Gina Masullo Chen and Kelsey N. Whipple

Christine A. Kray

Hinda Mandell

Rachel Parsons

Sally Campbell Galman

Asma T. Uddin

De Anna J. Reese and Delia C. Gillis

Katie Terezakis

Jamia Wilson

Tamar W. Carroll, Hinda Mandell, and Christine A. Kray

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

T he energy in the air as thousands made their way to Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester on Election Day 2016 to place I Voted Today stickers on Susan B. Anthonys headstone was unique, and powerful. The spectacle captured an international audience, as millions of viewers watched John Huckos live feed of the day on Facebook.1 Barbara Streisand and the BBC tuned in. CNN was there.

The mood at the cemetery was like nothing I had ever experienced. It was a brisk fall morning. The brilliant blue sky was a vivid backdrop for the gray cemetery markers set in thick, deep-green grass below the branches of ancient trees dressed in vibrant gold and crimson leaves. There was a palpable sense of expectation and a pervasive joy, but there was also a hint of caution, of uncertainty.

The crowd was gentle with one another. People with walkers, toddlers on hips, men alone, women in multigenerational groups, and smiling faces and bodies of all shapes and shades waited patiently for their turn to place their sticker and take a selfie at the modest limestone marker. Some waited as long as three hours, but no one tried to rush others along. People said they were participating in a historic moment. And indeed, they were.

By 8:00 a.m. the next morning, the sky and the cemetery were gray and damp with cold fog and drizzle, and the election results were in. History had been made, but the results angered some, confused others, and left many brokenhearted. What were we to make of the 2016 election?

In this book, the editors have brought together twenty-four chapters by scholars and writers who disassemble what happened from their location and expertise so that we can assemble a response from ours.

For those who were appalled or impressed by the ways in which social media affected public mood and opinion, here is an evidence-based analysis.

For those who are perplexed about why religious fundamentalists voted in droves for a twice-divorced man who confessed to assaulting women, heres an analysis that makes sense.

For those who dont understand why educated white women turned out for Trump or why fellow Democrats campaigned passionately against Clinton, here are some insights.

For those who have been keenly aware of the racism and bias in our systems of government, education, and corrections, here are tools to help others understand the systems that oppress and abuse.

For those who are distressed by the press and media, here are tools to sort through the propaganda, step outside your own echo chambers, and expose the forces that benefit from telling less than the whole story.

Musicians, artists, playwrights, and preachers: read here. These writers will open your imaginations to consider the motivations and concerns of characters who are different from those in your world.

For those feminists who seek to lift up equality for all, but dont understand why their strategies may perpetuate racism, classism, xenophobia, and transphobia: read here to see how that happened in Susan B. Anthonys day and in 2016.

During the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony said, We want a Union which is a Union in fact, a Union in spirit, not a sham.2 After the 2016 election, will the United States head toward a union that truly is of the people, by the people, and for all the people? Or will we be a sham?

Will the 2016 election prove to be the best of times, or the worst of times? It will be what we make of it. Heres a start to making history for humanitys sake.

Deborah L. Hughes

President and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House

. Live Broadcast: Susan B. Anthony Being Honored, News 8 WROC Rochester, November 8, 2016, http://www.facebook.com/News8WROC/videos/10155359367104386/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE.

. Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters, and Many from Her Contemporaries during Fifty Years , vol. 1 (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1899), 228.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T he editors wish to express their deep gratitude to many people who provided support, material and intellectual, to this book project. We are grateful to the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology and Dean James Winebrake for providing a faculty development grant that financed various elements of the book. We appreciate the unfailing and cheerful encouragement of the press editor, Sonia Kane, and the series editors, Alison Parker and Carol Faulkner, who saw that the history of last week is history, after all, and considered a volume about a twenty-first-century election for a series otherwise about the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They expertly guided and gently massaged the volume throughout the process.

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