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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Law,General Social Sciences