A01=Michael Rogin
american politics
american studies
anarchist
anti communism
Author_Michael Rogin
birth of a nation
black rapist
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cold war
cultural anxieties
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fear
film
international terrorism
media
nixon
nonfiction
political science
political theory
politics
popular culture
prejudice
presidents
psychology
race
racial conflict
racism
reagan
red scare
repression
social order
social studies
society
subversive
terrorism
terrorist
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zeitgeist
Product details
- ISBN 9780520064690
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 1988
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy, the agents of international terrorism - are familiar figures in the dream life that so often dominates American political consciousness. What are the meanings and sources of these demons? And why does the American political imagination conjure them up? Michael Rogin answers these questions by examining the American countersubversive tradition.
Michael P. Rogin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Subversive Geneology: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (California, 1985).
