Whiteshift

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities is a 2018 non-fiction book written by Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann.[1] Described by The Economist as a "monumental study of ethno-demographic change",[2] Whiteshift covers politics in both Europe and North America and looks into the political views of the populist right.[3][4] Kaufmann argues that the rise of Donald Trump in America and the populist right in Europe is a reaction to sweeping demographic change rather than to "economic anxiety".[5]

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
First edition
AuthorEric Kaufmann
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWhiteshift, white identity politics
Published2018
PublisherAllen Lane
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages624 pp
ISBN978-1-46831-697-1 (Hardcover)

Reviews

On release, The Times made Whiteshift the 'Book of the Week' but with a sceptical review by David Aaronovitch,[6] who called it "a big controversial book about a big controversial subject".[7] Publishers Weekly said it was "likely to make a big splash",[8] and The Financial Times listed it as one of the 'Best books of 2018' in the politics genre.[9] The New Yorker wrote that Kaufmann and Whiteshift were defending white identity politics.[10] Daniel Trilling, in the London Review of Books, was critical of the book, describing Kaufmann's frame of reference as "both too broad and too narrow".[11]

References
  1. Isaac Chotiner (30 April 2019). "A Political Scientist Defends White Identity Politics". The New Yorker.
  2. "Two new books explain the Brexit revolt". The Economist. 3 November 2018.
  3. Park MacDougald (1 March 2019). "A Different Way to Think About White Identity Politics". New York magazine.
  4. Zack Beauchamp (26 February 2019). "The Virtue of Nationalism and Whiteshift: Books that explain Trump". Vox.
  5. Theodore Kupfer (4 April 2019). "Whiteshift: Identity Politics in an Era of Demographic Change". National Review.
  6. David Aaronovitch (26 October 2018). "Review: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann — are white people really in decline?". The Times.
  7. Jasper Hamill (30 January 2019). "Will racist white people 'exit into a 1950s-style simulation' to avoid growing diversity in the West?". Metro.
  8. "Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities". Abrams Books.
  9. Gideon Rachman (23 November 2018). "Best books of 2018: Politics". Financial Times.
  10. Isaac Chotiner (30 April 2019). "A Political Scientist Defends White Identity Politics". The New Yorker.
  11. Daniel Trilling (201). "'I'm not racist, but ...'".
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