Race, Civil Rights, and Hate Speech in the Digital Era

Authors

Jessie Daniels, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

The emergence of the digital era has had unintended consequences for race, civil rights, and hate speech.This chapter looks at the prevalence of both overtly racist sites, such as Stormfront, and at "cloaked" sites, that purport to advocate civil rights but disguise a racist agenda.

Comments

This work was originally published in "Learning race and ethnicity: Youth and digital media," edited by Anna Everett.