- Summary
- Examines the ways in which anxieties about fascism in the United States have been expressed in the public sphere, through American television shows, Off-Broadway theater, party newspaper, bestselling works of history, journalism, popular sociology, political theory, and other media.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Vials, Chris.
- Published
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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Introduction: antifascism and the United States
European precedents, American echoes: fascism in history and memory
From margin to mainstream: American antifascism to 1945
Beyond economics, without guarantees: faschismustheorie in the United States
Resuming the people's war: HUAC, Joe McCarthy, and the antifascist challenge of the 1950s
Brownshirts in the twilight zone: antifascism in the liberal moment of the early 1960s
United front against genocide: African American antifascism, the Black Panthers, and the multiracial coalitions of the late 1960s
Queer antifascism: pink triangle politics and the Christian right
Epilogue: antifascism in strip mall America.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: antifascism and the United States -- European precedents, American echoes: fascism in history and memory -- From margin to mainstream: American antifascism to 1945 -- Beyond economics, without guarantees: faschismustheorie in the United States -- Resuming the people's war: HUAC, Joe McCarthy, and the antifascist challenge of the 1950s -- Brownshirts in the twilight zone: antifascism in the liberal moment of the early 1960s -- United front against genocide: African American antifascism, the Black Panthers, and the multiracial coalitions of the late 1960s -- Queer antifascism: pink triangle politics and the Christian right -- Epilogue: antifascism in strip mall America.
