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General outline

General outline. I. Time line II. “Framing” the news How frames work The frame of the KKK in the 1920s III. Mainstream ideology in the 1920s: State’s rights, racial control, lynching IV The Klan today V. Trajectory chart. I. Time-line. 1866 Klan formed

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General outline

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  1. General outline I. Time line II. “Framing” the news How frames work The frame of the KKK in the 1920s III. Mainstream ideology in the 1920s: State’s rights, racial control, lynching IV The Klan today V. Trajectory chart

  2. I. Time-line • 1866 Klan formed • 1915 Stone Mountain Klan rally (Wm. Joseph Simmons) • 1920s Tension: Shift in Afr.-Am. pop. — Publicity effort creates Klan. — WW I; Anti-German reaction

  3. Time line (cont.) Newspapers attack • New York World1921 • Memphis Commercial Appeal 1923 • Montgomery Advertiser 1927

  4. Time-line Summary • All attacked the Klan • Each won a Pulitzer Prize • Each contributed to reforms that the mainstream would coopt later.

  5. II. Framing” the news “frame” (def.) — the ideological definition of a news event or fact by the inclusion of certain meanings vs. the exclusion of others” “issues cultures,” “arenas,” or “packages” “power”

  6. How frames work • not causal, but part of a cultural context. • (emergent, dominant—incorporation) • usually derive from previous news frames • May derive from previously emergent ideologies • usually resonate with existing dominant cultural ideology, a.k.a. “frames”

  7. The frame presented by the KKK in the 1920s • Class-based conflict turned to race (and, later, to anti-Communism) • Racial control as social control • Klan values were against gambling, drinking, non- white skin color, religion, or ethnicity • Reflect a religious bias (anti-Papist; anti-Semitic)

  8. Similarities to mainstream American values dating back to the Civil War (and before) • States’ rights (independence—federalism) • Nativism (ca. 1840s) • An ideological struggle for control • Electoral aspirations • Race/ethnicity a flashpoint • Lower-class status as source of conflict • An ideology that exaggerates elite positions.

  9. Mainstream ideology in the 1920s: State’s rights, racial control, lynching George Fort Milton, conservative editor of the Chattanooga News: • an example of mainstream journalism • chaired the Commission on Interracial Cooperation’s Lynching Commission. • Milton opposed federal a lynching law • Milton’s (mainstream) conclusion: Local control was the only way to solve local problems

  10. www.kkk.com

  11. Klanwatch • Southern Poverty Law Center • http://www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-index.html

  12. Trajectory • Outsiders? — Opponents to the KKK • Goal for change? — None. • Mainstream press’s ideological base? • Neo-nativism: pro-segregationist, anti-German, anti-African-American, anti-Catholic • Outcome? No immediate mainstream change. • Seeds of change planted by these exceptions.

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