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Swastika Monitoring: Developing Digital Research Tools to Track Visual Rhetorics of Hate

Laurie Gries

Responses

To read response essays that take up this chapter, see Danner, Day, Gordon, Hilberg, Mathis, Ray, Scheidler, and Wysocki.

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