"From the bestselling author of "How Fascism Works", is a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fascist movement...

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1. Verfasser:	Stanley, Jason 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York One Signal Publishers / Atria 2024
Ausgabe:	First One Signal Publishers
Schlagworte:	Fascism / Political aspects / United States / 21st century Democracy / United States / Influence Polarization (Social sciences) / Political aspects Polarization (Social sciences) / Psychological aspects Fascism Fascisme Polarisation collective / Aspect politique Fascisme / Aspect politique / États-Unis / 21e siècle Polarisation collective / Aspect psychologique fascism Political Science Informational works Documents d'information
Zusammenfassung:	"From the bestselling author of "How Fascism Works", is a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fascist movement. In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country's conservative politicians and voters, but similar movements have found homes in the hearts and minds of people all across the globe. To understand the shape, form, and stakes of this assault, we must go back to extract lessons from our past. Democracy requires a common understanding of reality, a shared view of what has happened, that informs ordinary citizens' decisions about what should happen, now and in the future. Authoritarians target this shared understanding, seeking to separate us from our own history to destroy our self-understanding and leave us unmoored, resentful, and confused. By setting us against each other, authoritarians present themselves as the sole solution. In authoritarian countries, critical examination of those nations' history and traditions is discouraged if not an outright danger to those who do it. And it is no accident that local and global institutions of education have become a battleground, the authoritarian right's tip of the spear, where learning and efforts to upend a hierarchal status quo can be put to end by coercion and threats of violence. Democracies entrust schools and universities to preserve a common memory of positive change, generated by protests, social movements, and rebellions. The authoritarian right must erase this history, and, along with it, the very practice of critical inquiry that has so often been the engine of future progress."--
Beschreibung:	xxi, 233 pages 22 cm
ISBN:	9781668056912 1668056917