{"id":6679,"date":"2017-05-16T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/16\/black-power-and-the-rise-of-trumplandia\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:57","slug":"black-power-and-the-rise-of-trumplandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/black-power-and-the-rise-of-trumplandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Black power and the rise of Trumplandia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Education professor Paul Thomas draws from his formative years in the 1960s and 1970s to inform the opinion piece he penned for the <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/black-power-and-the-rise-of-trumplandia_us_5919e787e4b086d2d0d8d18f?7jb\">HuffPost<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. In it, Thomas compares &#8220;black power&#8221; as it appeared then and &#8220;black power&#8221; viewed now. For Thomas, \u201cblack power\u201d manifested itself, he says, &#8220;in two forms&#8211;pop culture versions of blaxploitation media, including \u201cLuke Cage, Hero for Hire,\u201d \u201cShaft,\u201d and real-world protests such as John Carlos and Tommie Smith, with black gloves and fists raised at the 1968 Olympics.&#8221; Fast forward to 2017 where &#8220;black power&#8221; is displayed &#8220;in the form of economic power, a rising economic autonomy by blacks that likely played a major role in motivating Trump\u2019s supporters who seek to keep the U.S. white,&#8221; says Thomas. Among other books, Thomas is author of <em>Trumplandia,\u00a0Unmasking Post-Truth America\u00a0<\/em>(2017, Garn Press). He is a recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English\u00a0George Orwell Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Education professor Paul Thomas draws from his formative years in the 1960s and 1970s to inform the opinion piece he penned for the HuffPost. In it, Thomas compares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}