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Erasing history : how fascists rewrite the past to control the future / Jason Stanley.

Stanley, Jason, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781668056912
  • ISBN: 1668056917
  • Physical Description: xxi, 233 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First One Signal Publishers / Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : One Signal Publishers / Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- How to create an autocracy -- Colonizing the mind -- Nationalist project -- From supremacism to fascism -- Anti-education -- Classical education -- Reclaiming history -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary, etc.:
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.--Provided by publisher.
Subject: Fascism > Political aspects > United States > 21st century.
Democracy > United States > Influence.
Polarization (Social sciences) > Political aspects.
Polarization (Social sciences) > Psychological aspects.
Fascism.

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