Tag: Charlottesville attack
The surprising connection between ‘take a knee’ protests and Citizens United
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that some fear is destroying American democracy, may also be showing us how...
What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?
Jessie Daniels, City University of New York
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical...
Is Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph an American ‘Guernica’?
Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University
On August 12, Charlottesville Daily Progress photographer Ryan M. Kelly captured the exact moment that Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields, Jr....
Charlottesville and the politics of fear
David Alpher, George Mason University
I have spent nearly 16 years studying how the risk of violence grows in societies around the world and running...
Charlottesville attack shows homegrown terror on the right is on the...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as...