Building on Dog Whistle Politics and a two-year research project, Merge Left locates Donald Trump within the larger context of political racism, and shows how to build support for a multi-racial, progressive super-majority.

Dog Whistle Politics offers a sweeping account of how more than 50 years ago the Republican Party—the party of big business—seized on racism as their principal way to win elections, and what that has meant for us all.

Racism on Trial tells the astounding story of how young Mexican Americans in Los Angeles entered the civil rights movement to protest inferior schools and were met by police violence. In response, they moved to reject the claim to white identity embraced by their parents and became instead “brown and proud.”

A pioneering book that helped to establish whiteness studies, White by Law traces court cases interpreting the requirement that persons be “white” in order to naturalize. This racial prerequisite was established at the country’s founding and was not fully repealed until 1952, forcing courts to define who was white and why.