The 2017 'Summer of Hate' in Charlottesville became a worldwide media event. Aniko Bodroghkozy examines this formative moment in US history by juxtaposing it against two other epochal moments that put American racism and the struggle against it on worldwide display: the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma campaigns of the civil rights movement.

"This book analyzes Charlottesville's 2017 "Summer of Hate" as a world-wide media event, putting the resurgence of "alt-right" extremism and the antiracist movement that sprang up in opposition to it in dialogue with the key media moments that defined the civil rights era of the 1960s, another moment in U.S. history when white supremacists clashed with antiracist protesters"--