Rough Draft of History (eBook)

A Century of US Social Movements in the News

Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren (Autoren)

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2022
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23276-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United StatesA new view of twentieth-century US social movements, Rough Draft of History examines how national newspapers covered social movements and the organizations driving them. Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren identify hundreds of movement organizations, from the Women's Christian Temperance Union to Occupy Wall Street, and document their treatment in the news. In doing so, Amenta and Caren provide an alternative account of US history from below, as it was refracted through journalistic lenses.Iconic organizations in the women's rights, African American civil rights, and environmental movements gained substantial media attention. But so too did now-forgotten groups, such as the German-American Alliance, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Peace and Freedom Party. Amenta and Caren show why some organizations made big news while others did not, why some were treated well while others were handled roughly. They recover forgotten stories, including that of the Townsend Plan, a Depression-era organization that helped establish Social Security. They also reveal that the media handled the civil rights movement far more harshly than popular histories recount. And they detail the difficulties movements face in today's brave new media world.Drawing from digitized newspapers across a century and through to the present, Rough Draft of History offers insights for those seeking social and political change and those trying to make sense of it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 36 b/w illus. 26 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Alternative media (U.S. political right) • anti-saloon league • anti-war movement • assassination • Austerity • Backwardness • Big lie • Black lives matter • Black Power • bonus army • boycott • Breitbart News • Civil disobedience • Classified advertising • conservative coalition • Conspiracy Theory • Contempt of Congress • Controversy • Corruption • Creative Destruction • Crime • Criticism of capitalism • Cynicism (contemporary) • debt limit • desegregation • Desegregation busing • Dick Gregory • Dictatorship • distrust • electoral fraud • Enemy of the People • Enemy of the State • Expense • Fake News • Filibuster • First Red Scare • German American Bund • Gerrymandering • grievance • Grover Norquist • Hank Klibanoff • Headline • hostility • House Un-American Activities Committee • H. Rap Brown • Impeachment • indictment • Insurgency • investigative journalism • Journalism • Journalist • Ku Klux Klan • Labour movement • left-wing politics • Legislation • mainstream media • media • media bias • Memory hole • Monopoly • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • neo-nazism • News • News media • newspaper • obscenity • occupy movement • occupy wall street • Pension • Personality clash • Piracy • Police brutality • political agenda • political machine • Politics • Poor People's Campaign • pressure politics • progressivism • Protest • Public sphere • Queer Nation • Racial segregation • Racism • Recession • Red Scare • right-wing media • right-wing politics • Social Movement • Social Movements • Social Problems • Speculation • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • The New York Times • The Opposite Direction • Trade Union • Unemployment • unrest • Urban Riots • Veto • voter suppression • war • war effort • War on Poverty
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23276-8 / 0691232768
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23276-8 / 9780691232768