Erasing History by Jason Stanley
From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us "why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism" (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country's conservative politicians and voters, but similar movements have found homes in the hearts and minds of people around the globe. To understand the shape, form, and stakes of this assault, we must go back to extract lessons from our past.
In authoritarian countries, critical examination of those nations' history and traditions is discouraged if not an outright danger to those who do it. And it is no accident that local and global institutions of education have become a battleground, where learning and efforts to upend a hierarchal status quo can be put to end by coercion and threats of violence. Democracies entrust schools and universities to preserve a common memory of positive change, generated by protests, social movements, and rebellions. The authoritarian right must erase this history, and, along with it, the very practice of critical inquiry that has so often been the engine of future progress.
In Erasing History, Yale professor of philosophy Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the authoritarian right's attacks on education, identifies their key tactics and funders, and traces their intellectual roots. He illustrates how fears of a fascist future have metastasized, from hypothetical threat to present reality. And with his "urgent, piercing, and altogether brilliant" (Johnathan M. Metzl, author of What We've Become) insight, he illustrates that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities--places that democratic societies across the world are now ill-prepared to defend against the fascist assault currently underway.
At Yale University, Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of five books, including How Propaganda Works, which won the Association of American Publishers' Prose Prize for Philosophy, and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He is a member of the Prison Policy Initiative's board of directors and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the London Guardian on topics such as propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, democracy, and authoritarianism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781668056929 |
| ISBN 10 | 1668056925 |
| Title | Erasing History |
| Author | Jason Stanley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atria/One Signal Publishers |
| Year published | 2026-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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