Abstract

New Right conservatives in the United States have been circuitously linked to the “new racism.” The association tends to focus upon New Right positions on issues like affirmative action, immigration, war, and welfare. New Right editorial cartoons, though, provide a forum where New Right thinkers can, for example, articulate New Right arguments about race and racism in the United States that expand the terms of political debate and minimize the sting of contemporary politics so marked by polarizing – “left”–”right” – discourse. This article is about how three very different New Right editorial cartoonists – Bruce Tinsley (Mallard Fillmore), Chris Muir (Day by Day), and Scott Stantis (Prickly City) – make use of space to navigate the politics of talking about race and racism in the United States.