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Samuel Walker

Hate Speech

The History of an American Controversy

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The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. How did this free speech tradition develop? Hate Speech provides the first comprehensive account of the history of the hate speech controversy in the United States. Samuel Walker examines the issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and American Nazi groups in the 1930s, tot he famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990s. The author argues that the civil rights movement play… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8032-9751-7
  • EAN: 9780803297517
  • Produktnummer: 1594440
  • Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
  • Seitenangabe: 217 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 358 g
  • Gewicht: 358
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Samuel Walker is Kiewit Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His previous publications include In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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