The Changing and Unchanged Face of American Racism

... Trump” Ilya Kravchenko: Racism in American Big League Politics This starkly pithy phrase uttered during the 2016 presidential campaign belongs to Nell Irvin Painter, an African American Professor of History at Princeton. It clearly defines the Donald Trump phenomenon and perhaps even Trumpism as an ideology of our time that is primarily a “product of racism and a reaction to the exacerbated race relations in today’s American society.” Throughout his entire presidential tenure, the 45 th President of the United States has positioned himself as “anti-Obama,” having essentially engaged exclusively in dismantling his predecessor’s legacy, including in terms of foreign ...