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We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s / by Beck, Richard,1986-(CARDINAL)410645;
"During the 1980s in California, New Jersey, and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, daycare workers were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of committing horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. These crimes, social workers and prosecutors said, had gone undetected for years, and they consisted of a brutality and sadism that defied all imagining. Children across the country painted a nightmarish picture of their abuse, some claiming they had been taken to graveyards, sometimes to kill animals, and sometimes to dig up bodies, which were removed from their coffins and stabbed. In some cases, investigators said that the abusers were filming the crimes on behalf of international child pornography rings. The dangers of babysitting services and day care centers became a national news media fixation, and legislatures took action to fend off the new threats facing the country's children. Of the many hundreds of people who were investigated in connection with day care and ritual abuse cases around the country, some 190 were formally charged with crimes, leading to more than 80 convictions. But, none of it happened. It was a decade-long outbreak of collective hysteria - on a par with the Salem witch trials"--
Subjects: Child sexual abuse; Ritual abuse; Child care workers; False arrest; Moral panics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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That book is dangerous! : how moral panic, social media, and the culture wars are remaking publishing / by Szetela, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This book investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced unintended and disastrous effects.
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Moral panics; Censorship.; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Islamophobia, race, and global politics / by Kazi, Nazia,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-158) and index.1. Introduction: troubling Islamophobia -- 2. The visual politics of racism and Islamophobia -- 3. Muslim beauty queens and the master narrative -- 4. Neoliberalism and the good Muslim archetype -- 5. Culture talk as Islamodiversion -- 6. US empire's Muslim cheerleaders -- 7. Beyond Trump -- 8. The never-ending war on terror -- 9. Conclusion: inverting reality, selling empire."A powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. Drawing on examples such as the legacy of Barack Obama, the mainstream media's portrayal of Muslims, and the justifications given for some of America's most recent military endeavors, Kazi highlights the vast impact of Islamophobia, connecting it to a long history of US racism"--
Subjects: Islamophobia; Moral panics; Muslims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rainbow black : a novel / by Thrash, Maggie,author.(CARDINAL)622058;
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens of current and former daycare kids. The criminal trial that follows is one of several in the novel, and it marks the beginning of Lacey's relentless effort to survive after her literal and figurative guardians vanish, one by one. After the hysteria results in a devastating murder, Lacey runs away and starts over in Montreal with a new identity. But will she ever escape the constant fear of being found out and having to face the trauma of the media spotlight all over again?"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Moral panics;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The trouble with reality : a rumination on moral panic in our time / by Gladstone, Brooke,author.(CARDINAL)561488;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-91).
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Mass media; Social media; Communication in politics; Political culture; Rhetoric; Presidents; Social media.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Now is not the time to panic [sound recording] : a novel / by Wilson, Kevin,1978-author,narrator.(CARDINAL)560823; Goodwin, Ginnifer,narrator.(CARDINAL)863639;
Performed by Ginnifer Goodwin ; [afterword read by Kevin Wilson].Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge, aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner, is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists, kidnappers, the rumors won't stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge, famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband, gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she's so carefully built?Compact discs.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Teenage artists; Moral panics; Art and social conflict; Posters; Rumor;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Now is not the time to panic [large print] : a novel / by Wilson, Kevin,1978-author.(CARDINAL)560823;
Twenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom, and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Large print books.; Teenage artists; Moral panics; Art and social conflict; Posters; Rumor; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Now is not the time to panic : a novel / by Wilson, Kevin,1978-author.(CARDINAL)560823;
"A novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists, kidnappers--the rumors won't stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge--famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband--gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she's so carefully built? A bold coming-of-age story, Now Is Not The Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art."--
Subjects: Novels.; Art and social conflict; Identity (Psychology); Teenage artists; Moral panics; Posters; Rumor; Man-woman relationships; Art;
Available copies: 59 / Total copies: 79
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The cancel culture panic : how an American obsession went global / by Daub, Adrian,author.(CARDINAL)353426;
Introduction : exporting a moral panic -- What we talk about when we talk about cancel culture -- Word histories -- The imagined campus -- The neoconservative view -- The will to melodrama -- The techniques of a panic : anecdote, subscription, essayism -- Cosmopolitan provincialism : how "cancel culture" gets imported -- Cancel culture adaptation -- Conclusion : liberalism and illiberalism."Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in new get-up. In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning media that has taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be. Media in Western Europe, South America, Russia and Australia have devoted as much--in some cases more--attention to this supposedly American phenomenon than most US outlets. From French crusades against 'le wokisme' via British fables of the 'loony left', from a German obsession with campus anecdotes to a global revolt against 'gender studies': countries the world over have developed culture war narratives in conflict with the US, and above all its universities -- narratives that they themselves borrowed from the US. Who exactly is afraid of cancel culture? To trace how various global publics have been so quickly convinced that cancel culture exists and that it poses an existential problem, Daub compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of 'being cancelled' has on readers around the world. A book for anyone wondering how the United States' institutions of higher learning have become objects of immense interest and political lightning rods, not just for audiences and voters in the US, but worldwide"--Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Cancel culture.; Moral panics.; Political correctness.; Social pressure.; Mass media; Civilization, Modern;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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American panic : a history of who scares us and why / by Stein, Mark,1951-(CARDINAL)647618;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index."In American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence over issues such as Latino immigration, gay marriage, and the construction of mosques, Stein closely examines just what it is that causes us as a nation to overreact in the face of widespread and potentially profound change. This book also devotes chapters to African Americans, Native Americans, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Chinese and Japanese peoples, communists, capitalists, women, and a highly turbulent but largely forgotten panic over Freemasons. Striking similarities in these diverse episodes are revealed in primary documents Stein has unearthed, in which statements from the past could easily be mistaken for statements today. As these similarities come to light, Stein reveals why some people become panicked over particular issues when others do not"--
Subjects: Panic; Fear; Moral panics; National characteristics, American; Political culture; Social change;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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