Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy

ISBN-13: 9780815371229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Anthony Dimaggio

Opis

In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, this book looks at the historical progression of modern social uprisings in the post-2008 period, including the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Bernie Sanders “Revolution,” Trump’s populism, the anti-Trump revolt, and #MeToo.

Spis treści

1. The Tea Party and the Rise of Rightwing Rebellion  2. The Economic Justice Movement – Challenging Plutocracy and Inequality  3. Black Lives Matter And the Struggle Against Color-Blind Racism (With Sakura Shinjo)  4.  Populism in the 2016 Election  5. The Anti-Trump Uprising and Beyond

O autorze

Anthony DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University and author of a variety of books on mass media and politics, most recently The Politics of Persuasion: Media Bias and Economic Policy in the Modern Era (2017) and Political Power in America: Class Conflict and the Subversion of Democracy (2019). He has been an active participant in social movement politics for the last two decades, and is an avid social commentator.