American Democracy and Disconsent: Liberalism and Illiberalism in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Black Lives Matter, and the Capitol Insurrection [Paperback]

This volume is a thorough re-examination of civil unrest and discontent in the United States, particularly the intersection of democracy and violence.

Prologue
1. Violence as a Sumptuary Privilege
2. Democratization and Civil Unrest in America (and Elsewhere)
3. The Moral Foundation of Social and Political Disconsent
4. Crowds, Strangers, and City Life
5. The Other Ferguson Effect
6. Charlottesville
7. Black Lives Matter Protests (and Violence)
8. January 6
9.The Future of Civil Unrest and Violence in America (and Elsewhere)
Bibliography
Index

Daniel J. Monti is a professor of sociology at Saint Louis University. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he is the author of over 50 scholarly articles and the author or editor of eight books on subjects ranging from educational reform and inner-city redevelopment to youth gangs, and American urban history.

Daniel Montis American Democracy and Disconsent: Liberalism and Illiberalism in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Black Lives Matter, and the Capitol Insurrection is a fresh, deeply original interpretation of violence in America.  It stands on a strongly argued foundation of social learning about the exigencies of living together in a multiethnic, multireligious society.

 Donald L. Horowitz, author of The Deadly Ethnic Riot

This lively and engaging book about civil unrest and 'disconsent' in America today is timely. When most of us across the world are pessimistic about the stability of American democracy, Daniel Monti manages to discuss the competing forces of liberalism and illiberlóJ