Beschreibung:
Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States.
1 Pacification and resistance in racialized states: a comparative view; 2 Defensive adaptations: NAACP responses to the U.S. post-racial project 1970-1990; 3 Resisting repression: The Black Lives movement in context; 4 Racist policing, practical resonance, and frame alignment in Ferguson; 5 Active abeyance, political opportunity, and the "new" white supremacy; 6 The biographical consequences of repression: Arab Americans in post-9/11 America; 7 Localized political contexts: undocumented youth mobilization during hostile times; 8 Gaining a voice: storytelling and undocumented youth activism in Chicago; 9 Racial, ethnic, and immigration protest during year one of the Trump presidency