Anth 475 (R) Anthropology of Conspiracy Theory
Read:
- Peake, B. (2017, May 25). Fake News and the Rotten George Soros. Platpus: The CASTAC Blog.
- Barkun, M. (2013). “Conspiracy Theories about Barak Obama.” In A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, 2nd ed., Pp. 183-192. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Watch:
- Frontline (2016, Sep. 22). “Inside the Night President Obama Took On Donald Trump | The Choice 2016.” Frontline.
Suggested:
- Goldwag, A. (2012). Chapter 1: “The Paranoid Style of Hatred” In The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Goldwag, A. (2012). Chapter 5: “The Whore of Babylon and Stealth Jihad.” In The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Coppins, M. (2015, Nov. 27). How Donald Trump courted the right-wing fringe to conquer the GOP. Washington Post.
- Coppins, M. (2016, Sept. 16). Why It’s So Hard For Trump To Give Up His Birther Crusade. BuzzFeed.