Nasty Women and Bad Hombres Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election | Alumni Association

Nasty Women and Bad Hombres Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Presenter: Professors Tamar W. Carroll

Associate Professor of History at R.I.T.

Webinar Date: 01-16-2019

Nasty Women and Bad Hombres Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election

This webinar looks at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election. RIT professors Christine Kray and Tamar Carroll will talk about their new book, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press, 2018).\n\nThe book's essays look at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: \"nasty women\" vs. \"deplorables\"; \"bad hombres\" and \"Crooked Hillary,\" analyzing it in terms of gender, race, and their intersections. 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 struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again.\n\nGender 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 men--and men of other immigrant and minority groups--as 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. The book's epilogue considers post-election developments like the Women's March and #metoo.

Professors Tamar W. Carroll / Associate Professor of History at R.I.T.

Tamar W. Carroll is Associate Professor of History at RIT, where she is also a faculty affiliate in the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Museum Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies programs. Carroll is co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election. She is the author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty and Feminist Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) and co-curator of the multimedia exhibition, 'Whose Streets? Our Streets!': New York City, 1980-2000.\n\n\nChristine A. Kray, Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Program Director of Sociology & Anthropology at RIT\n\nChristine A. Kray is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Program Director of Sociology & Anthropology at RIT. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and worked at Dartmouth College and Western Michigan University before coming to RIT. A political anthropologist, she has examined cultural dimensions of colonialism, globalization, and resistance in Mexico and Belize. Her current research applies theories and methods of anthropology to illuminate some of the unspoken dynamics of power and resistance in US presidential politics.