Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Understanding Social Movements
	Hegemony, Plutocracy, and Social Movements
	Mainstream Scholarly Theories of Social Movements
	Social Movements and the “Outside” Lobbying Strategy
	Populism and Modern Social Movements
	Research Design
	Plan of the Book
		Chapter 1: The Tea Party and the Rise of Right-Wing Rebellion
		Chapter 2: The Economic Justice Movement: Challenging Plutocracy and Inequality
		Chapter 3: Black Lives Matter: and the Struggle against Color-Blind Racism
		Chapter 4: Populism in the 2016 Election
		Chapter 5: The Anti-Trump Uprising and Beyond
	Notes
1. The Tea Party and the Rise of Right-Wing Rebellion
	A History of the Tea Party
	Tea Partiers: What They Believed
	Tea Party Bigotry?
	Selling the Apocalypse: The Tea Party’s Conspiracy Politics
	Intersectional Identities: Tea Party Racism, Xenophobia, and
Health-Care Protests
	Intersectional Sexism and the Tea Party
	Media and Scholarly Discourse on the Tea Party
	Challenging Conventional Wisdom on the Tea Party
	What Motivated the Tea Party? Socio-Cultural Versus
Economic Attitudes
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. The Economic Justice Movement
	Inequality and Politics: What We Know
	The Madison Uprising
	Madison’s Impact on Political Discourse
	Media Effects
	Occupy Wall Street: The Fight for Economic Justice Continues
	Occupy Wall Street Emerges
	The Occupiers: Who They Were, What They Believed
	Occupy’s Radical Politics
	The Limits of Occupy
	Occupy, Social Media, and the News
	Media Effects
	Occupy’s Radical Appeal
	Fight for $15
	Chronology of the Protests
	Conclusion
	Notes
3. Black Lives Matter
	Intersectionality and BLM
	What Can Be Learned from BLM?
	Police Violence: A Background
	Racism in America: What We Know
	Ferguson: The Early Development of BLM
	Social Media and the Ferguson Protests
	The Media and Ferguson
	Intersectionality and Ferguson
	Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising
	Social Media, the News Media, and Baltimore
	Intersectionality and Baltimore
	Assessing the Impact of BLM
	The Strengths (and Limits) of BLM
	Policy Change
	Conclusion
	Notes
4. Populism in the 2016 Election
	Populism: A Background
	Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Election
	Sanders and the Media
	Assessing Sanders’ Appeal
	Assessing Sanders’ “Political Revolution”
	Populism on the Right: The Rise of Trump
	Populism and Plutocracy
	Reactionary Populism in the Culture War
	Trump and the Media
	Trump and the Public: Right-Wing Populism and Its Supporters
	The Myth of Trump’s Economic Populism
	Trump and “the Fascist Creep”
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. The Anti-Trump Uprising and Beyond
	A Second Renaissance of Protest
	The 2017 Women’s Marches
	Opposing Trump’s Travel Ban and the DACA Repeal
	Tax Day Protests and the March(es) for Science
	Opposing “Obamacare” Repeal
	The Strengths and Limits of the Anti-Trump Protests
	Beyond the Anti-Trump Protests: #MeToo
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
	Elections as an Instrument of Democracy?
	Social Movements and Democracy
	Notes
Index