Charlottesville: A Visual Narrative

Charlottesville: A Visual Narrative

Bouie discusses the events during the weekend of Aug 12, 2017, in Charlottesville VA. There was, on the night of Aug 11, the torchlit gathering of neo-Nazi and white-supremacist protesters; hundreds of young white men marching across the grounds of the University of Virginia to claim the Rotunda as...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Virginia quarterly review 2017-10, Vol.93 (4), p.28-69
Hauptverfasser: Bayer, Edu, Eich, Matt, Hockstein, Evelyn, Ide, Justin, Lappa, Jason, Peterson, Mark, Plowman, William B., Roberts, Zach D., Suchak, Sanjay, Ubilla, Guillermo X, Bouie, Jamelle
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Sprache:eng
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Demonstrations & protests
Racism
Rituals
Violence
White supremacy
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Zusammenfassung:Bouie discusses the events during the weekend of Aug 12, 2017, in Charlottesville VA. There was, on the night of Aug 11, the torchlit gathering of neo-Nazi and white-supremacist protesters; hundreds of young white men marching across the grounds of the University of Virginia to claim the Rotunda as their own. Evoking the fiery rituals of the Ku Klux Klan, these men adopted the violence of their forebears as well, surrounding and terrorizing counterdemonstrators, with little response or intervention from authorities.
ISSN:0042-675X
2154-6932