Hate Unleashed: America's Cataclysmic Change

ISBN-13: 9781440858147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str.

Edward Dunbar

Opis

After the U.S. presidential election result in November of 2016, it became clear that hostility towards and even intolerance of minorities, immigrants, and socially progressive individuals was more prevalent in the United States than many thought--and that these hateful sentiments had played a significant role in the election of Donald Trump. What are the reasons for this recent change in U.S. culture? Or have these feelings been entrenched and rampant but under the surface for decades? Are we now seeing the effects of a different kind of "freedom of expression" from those who had previously been virtually invisible?Hate Unleashed: America's Cataclysmic Change looks at the process by which America moved away from a traditional progressive democratic model of governance in response to themes of economic and cultural vulnerability. Presenting insights based on psychological science as well as survey data and polling research, author Edward Dunbar exposes how xenophobia, the use of hate speech as a political tool, and unbridled ultranationalism challenged the political status quo and led to an escalation in hate activity after the November 2016 election. The book draws on empirical examination of data regarding hate activity and individual interviews to examine the cataclysmic cultural divisions in an unending civil war in the transformation of the United States into a true multicultural society. The studies included in the text emphasize the importance of working to fight against hate crimes and their proliferation since November 2016.