| Description |
ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social problems and social issues |
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Social problems and social issues.
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| Contents |
I. The Emergence of Flag Desecration and Civil Religion -- 1. Protest, Social Control, and the Semiotics of Flag Desecration -- 2. The Roots of Flag Desecration in American History -- 3. Civil Religion and the Flag as a Venerated Object -- II. The Authoritarian Aesthetic and Its Resistance -- 4. Questioning Authority in the Age of Protest -- 5. Flag Burning as Political Iconoclasm in the 1980s -- 6. Patriotism and Dissent in the Post-Eichman Era -- III. Moral Panic Over Flag Desecration -- 7. Moral Panic and the Social Construction of Flag Desecration -- 8. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Criminalization of Protest -- 9. The Media and Its Contradictions in the Flag Panic -- 10. Resisting the Criminalization of Protest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and indexes |
| Subject |
Flags -- Desecration -- United States.
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| LC no. |
00044196 |
| ISBN |
0202306518 cloth acid-free paper |
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0202306526 paperback acid-free paper |
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