Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022637615X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Harcourt shows how the Klan’s racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America’s prevailing culture.. In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In
“In this detailed and impressively researched book, Harcourt demonstrates that the Ku Klux Klan was embedded in the popular culture of the 1920s, showing that the Klan absorbed and took part in distinctive aspects of American popular culture, including movies, music, print media, radio, and sports. The book clearly establishes the Klan’s presence in American popular culture during the 1920s, which in itself is an important contribution to the debates concerning the representativeness,