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Social Dominance Orientation
Solidarity Dividend is Heather McGhee’s term for the kind of political gains that can only be achieved by rejecting zero-sum thinking and working across racial lines. For instance, labor unions win better contracts when they include white and Black members than when they exclude Black members to try and appease their racist white members.
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Solidarity Dividend Term Timeline in The Sum of Us
The timeline below shows where the term Solidarity Dividend appears in The Sum of Us. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Introduction
...racial lines, they can build better policies and overcome animosity. McGhee calls this the “ Solidarity Dividend .” Indeed, millions of white voters helped oust Trump in 2020, and they give McGhee...
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Chapter 5: No One Fights Alone
Nevertheless, underpaid workers still can achieve “the Solidarity Dividend of better jobs” through unions. In 2012, fast-food workers across New York City went on...
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Chapter 6: Never a Real Democracy
...labor protections and an increased minimum wage, which show that true representative democracy yields a Solidarity Dividend . Many have proposed creating a nationwide version of this program.
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Chapter 8: The Same Sky
...Richmond’s diverse residents managed to take back the city council, confront Chevron, and win the Solidarity Dividend of health.
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Chapter 10: The Solidarity Dividend
Maine has garnered a clear Solidarity Dividend from the Maine People’s Alliance’s multiracial activism. In 2018, the state elected a progressive legislature...
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...a better society. First, we should move beyond the zero-sum paradigm and try to achieve Solidarity Dividends instead. Second, the way to do this is by “refill[ing] the pool of public goods.”...
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First, we need Solidarity Dividends , not zero-sum politics. The U.S.’s current system of extreme inequality is unsustainable: a few...
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