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Framing Henry Ford's War: Representation, Speech, and the New Civil Rights History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Victoria Saker Woeste
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Abstract

In this essay, I respond to three readers of my book, Henry Ford's War and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech, by embracing the opportunity to reconsider the book's theoretical and historiographical frames. I synthesize the contributions that Clyde Spillenger, Carroll Seron, and Aviam Soifer make in their deep readings of the book and respond to their criticisms. I then place the book into a new interpretive frame that is emerging in the field of the “new civil rights history,” as it is now being conceptualized in the work of Risa Goluboff, Kenneth Mack, Tomiko Brown‐Nagin, and others writing on civil rights advocacy in the twentieth‐century United States.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , Fall 2015 , pp. 1067 - 1079
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2015 

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