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Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement
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Title
Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement / Erin R. Pineda.
ISBN
9780197526460 (ebook) :
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages).
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 9, 2021).
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Summary
As it is popularly understood, civil disobedience is a form of constitutional patriotism: protestors have to accept legal punishment and appeal to society's core principles in order to demonstrate that they are sincere reformers, not revolutionaries. Although this template for action is based on the example of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Seeing Like an Activist' demonstrates that it profoundly misunderstands civil rights activism. Based on historical and archival evidence, it argues that civil rights activists turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonisation: to emancipate themselves and others, and in the process transform the racial order.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2021
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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