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The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s (2019)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2020). The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 50(2), 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12580

This paper excavates the relationship between the presidency and an emergent white, European ‘ethnic’ identity politics during the 1970s. Rather than a response to cultural drift or backlash politics, presidential efforts to harness ‘ethnic’ identity... Read More about The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s.

John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2019). John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973. Journal of Urban History, 45(3), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218765465

Focusing on the collaboration between Mayor John Lindsay and business advocacy group the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), this article illustrates the utility of public and elite anxieties over street crime in legitimizing new, privatized mo... Read More about John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973.

Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans (2017)
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Merton, J. (2019). Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans. Journal of American Studies, 53(2), 449-477. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001803

Historians seeking to explain the late twentieth century rightward shift of urban ethnic whites have tended to ignore the shifting meaning and content of white ethnic identity in this transition, and the utility of these changes to conservative polit... Read More about Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans.

Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (eds.), Winning while losing: civil rights, the conservative movement and the presidency from Nixon to Obama (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, $79.95. Pp. 304; 978-0-8130-4908-3) (2014)
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Merton, J. (in press). Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (eds.), Winning while losing: civil rights, the conservative movement and the presidency from Nixon to Obama (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, $79.95. Pp. 304; 978-0-8130-4908-3). Journal of American Studies, 48(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814001522

Rethinking the politics of white ethnicity in 1970s America (2012)
Journal Article
MERTON, J. (2012). Rethinking the politics of white ethnicity in 1970s America. Historical Journal, 55(3), 731-756. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x1200026x

Historians have tended to characterize the ‘white ethnic’ identity politics of the 1970s in the United States as a significant feature of the conservative counterrevolution, especially the rise of populist racial conservatism and its splintering of t... Read More about Rethinking the politics of white ethnicity in 1970s America.