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Cargando... Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History (edición 2017)por Linda Gordon (Autor)
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Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through violence and lynching had established a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South. Responding to the 'emergency' posed by the flood of immigrants - Irish and Italians, 'self-centred Hebrews', and 'sly Orientals' - this 'second Klan', as award-winning historian Linda Gordon vividly chronicles, spread across America.Condemning liberal, 'urban' vices like liquor, prostitution, movies and jazz as Catholic and Jewish plots to subvert American values, the rejuvenated Klan became entirely mainstream, attracting middle-class men and women. It grew to include elaborate secret rituals and mass 'Klonvocations' before collapsing amid revelations of sordid sexual scandals, financial embezzlement, and Ponzi-like schemes.The Klan's effective melding of Christian values with racial bigotry and its lightning-like accretion of political power now becomes a sobering parable for the twenty-first century, helping to explain the dangerous appeal of today's welter of intolerance and explaining its ancestry. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSin géneros Sistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)322.42097309042Social sciences Political Science Relation of the state to organized groups and their members Political action groups Revolutionary and subversive groups Biography And History North America Revolutionary and subversive groups in the United StatesValoraciónPromedio: No hay valoraciones.¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |