Making #Charlottesville

Aniko Bodroghkozy is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement.

Bodroghkozy makes a timely and original connection of the power of media to both contemporary racial unrest and the civil rights movement. A pleasure to read and a flat-out good book. --Julian Maxwell Hayter, University of Richmond, author of The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia In Making #Charlottesville, Aniko Bodroghkozy gives us an important entry in the historical record of the events of August 2017 and connects it to the attempted coup four years later. She ties her analysis of the visual imagery and iconography that inspires the far right to the core of mainstream American values. Yet there is much to be hopeful about here in the work of antiracist activists who took to the streets and to social media to combat the fascists who converged on Charlottesville. This is a crucial intervention in media studies and the far right. --Jessie Daniels, Hunter College (CUNY), author of Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights Media is an inescapable influence in shaping our perceptions. Dr. Bodroghkozy offers keen insight into how it has been used to create the truths and myths that have shaped the world's view of #Charlottesville. She also compares and contrasts how media was used to manipulate the public in the past. We have been played. --Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer Professor Bodroghkozy deliberately likens the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma protests, Charlottesville in 2017, and the January 6th insurrection insofar that the organizers use media coverage to spread their message. Antiracists have garnered national media attention to expose racism to galvanize outrage to change racist policies. White nationalists have captured media attention to organize and amplify racist violence and white supremacy. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand the power of media. --Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at, Boston University, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America