Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy - Couverture souple

Walker, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803297513 ISBN 13 : 9780803297517

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Synopsis

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, to the famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990s. The author argues that the civil rights movement played a central role in developing this country's strong free speech tradition. The courts were very concerned about protecting the provocative and even offensive forms of expression by civil rights forces. Civil rights groups, therefore, preferred to protect rather than restrict offensive speech-even if it meant protecting racist speech. 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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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803297513
• ISBN 13: 9780803297517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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