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2014 selection · Nonfiction
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class by Ian Haney López appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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