[citation needed] Historian David Roediger has outlined how works, beginning in the 1980s, from writers such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, began explicitly discussing "white identity's intricacies and costs".
[4]In April 2019, AP covered activist Rashad Robinson's suggestion that 2020's Democratic Party candidates needed to do more than address white identity, by transforming privilege into action that tackled inequality.
[12] In a party-specific analysis, Jamil Smith, writing in Rolling Stone, has suggested that under Trump's leadership, "Republicanism is now inseparable from this corrosive notion of white identity.
[14] In March 2019, the New Zealand Christchurch terrorist attack shooter had named the election of American president Donald Trump in 2016 "as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose".
[15][16] In June 2019, CNN reported how calls by the identitarian movement to celebrate white identity, were often accompanied by the incitement of violence against non-white peoples.
[22] In 1996, psychologists James Jones and Robert T. Carter also researched and produced guidance on the psychological steps involved with achieving "an authentically nonracist white identity".