Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-234) and index (pages 235-246).
Contents:
My summer of hate : a personal narrative. Being media-savvy : the alt-right -- Being more media-savvy : Charlottesville antiracist activists -- A12 : iconic images -- Viola/Heather and Annie/Veronica -- "This is what community looks like -- Four presidents -- Afterword: A12 to J6 and beyond -- Afterword: My summer of hate : a personal narrative.
Summary:
The 2017 "Summer of Hate" in Charlottesville became a worldwide media event, putting at center stage the resurgence of emboldened and empowered white supremacy and "alt-right" extremism, as well as the antiracist movement opposing it. Aniko Bodroghkozy’s trenchant study examines this formative moment in recent U.S. history by juxtaposing it against two other epochal moments that put American racism and the struggle against it on worldwide display: the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma campaigns of the civil rights movement. Making #Charlottesville investigates the historical "rhymes" in the mass media’s treatment of these events, separated by half a century, along with the ways that activists on both sides made use of the new media environment of their day to organize and amplify their respective messages. Bodroghkozy teases out the connections, similarities, and resonances among these events—from the ways all three places were consciously chosen as stage sets for media campaigns, to the similarly iconic and heavily circulated images they produced, to the sustained cultural purchase they continue to hold in the United States and around the world--Publisher's description.
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