Introduction: The cascading crises propelling the Capitol riots / Sandra Jeppesen, Michael Hoechsmann and iowyth hezel ulthiin -- Against apartheid pedagogy in the age of white supremacy / Henry Giroux -- Mediatized visions of a nation on fire : negotiating truth under shifting epistemic conditions / Michael Hoechsmann -- Mapping the events of the Capitol riots in time and space / iowyth hezel ulthiin, Miranda McKee and David VanDyke -- Coded data : tracking discursive trends in the January 6 Parler data / David VanDyke -- Photographing the spectacle : curating a crisis / Miranda McKee -- Awakening the beast at the Capitol riots : affect, cruelty, and QAnon / iowyth hezel ulthiin -- Performance crime and self-surveillant subjects in the Capitol riots / Sandra Jeppesen -- Tailgaters and militants : unpacking masculinities at the Capital riots / Michael Hoechsmann and David VanDyke -- Alt-Right QAMoms, mobilizers, militias, and martyrs : the women of the Capitol riots / iowyth hezel ulthiin and Sandra Jeppesen -- Race, riots, and the political imaginary / Chenjerai Kumanyika.
United States Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund shares his personal account of the events leading up to January 6, and provides a detailed and harrowing minute-by-minute account of the attack on the US Capitol.
But it also shares the story of a man who refused to stay quiet when he learned that some of the men and women he had risked his life protecting, who knew him by name, would deny the horrors they faced.