Through the implementation of qualitative analysis this study purposes to discover if there exists possible correlation between President Trump’s assent to power and the increasing legitimacy of the Ku Klux Klan. Using Ernest Bormann’s (1972) Fantasy Theme Criticism, the Knights Party official website and the Donald J. Trump official website are systematically analyzed for dramatis personae (character), setting and action. The rhetorical visions compiled from each analysis are compared employing Ernest Bormann’s (1980) Symbolic Convergence Theory. Resulting analysis suggests little to no correlation between the two movements. The two websites provide very different rhetorical visions with no overlap. The work presented here could have profo...
This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of...
The Ku Klux Klan grew as a movement in Maine and New Brunswick during the 1920s and 1930s. Reflectiv...
This study examines the quantity and placement of Ku Klux Klan materials among archival collections ...
Born in Violence, Remade in Terror: The KKK and the National Imagination With Ku-Klux, Elaine Frantz...
The final project in the course ASI 120 was a historiography on American Reconstruction. The purpose...
In the 1960s, the leader of the largest Ku Klux Klan organization in the United States presumed that...
White nationalism has played a critical role in shaping United States politics for over 150 years. S...
Over the past one hundred years or so, interest in the Ku Klux Klan has ebbed and flowed. The Klan w...
This thesis explores the construction of white supremacy through a close study of Ku Klux Klan viole...
In America’s Age of Trump, we must all consider the long history of white nationalism. The 2016 pres...
This research will review the historic fluctuations of white nationalism, especially the racially mo...
Was the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a racist organization? Was it...
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a nationally and internationally famous American white supremacist hate gr...
The 1920s was a transitional decade in the political history of the United States. Progressivism did...
The Ku Klux Klan was a major force in American political and social life throughout the better part ...
This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of...
The Ku Klux Klan grew as a movement in Maine and New Brunswick during the 1920s and 1930s. Reflectiv...
This study examines the quantity and placement of Ku Klux Klan materials among archival collections ...
Born in Violence, Remade in Terror: The KKK and the National Imagination With Ku-Klux, Elaine Frantz...
The final project in the course ASI 120 was a historiography on American Reconstruction. The purpose...
In the 1960s, the leader of the largest Ku Klux Klan organization in the United States presumed that...
White nationalism has played a critical role in shaping United States politics for over 150 years. S...
Over the past one hundred years or so, interest in the Ku Klux Klan has ebbed and flowed. The Klan w...
This thesis explores the construction of white supremacy through a close study of Ku Klux Klan viole...
In America’s Age of Trump, we must all consider the long history of white nationalism. The 2016 pres...
This research will review the historic fluctuations of white nationalism, especially the racially mo...
Was the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a racist organization? Was it...
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a nationally and internationally famous American white supremacist hate gr...
The 1920s was a transitional decade in the political history of the United States. Progressivism did...
The Ku Klux Klan was a major force in American political and social life throughout the better part ...
This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of...
The Ku Klux Klan grew as a movement in Maine and New Brunswick during the 1920s and 1930s. Reflectiv...
This study examines the quantity and placement of Ku Klux Klan materials among archival collections ...