Full Description
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. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black Lives movement, mainstream Black organizations, the Mexican-American Dreamer groups, immigrant-rights mobilizations, Arab-American resistance, and White nationalism are all examined by situating them in a rapidly evolving and—in many ways—increasingly unfavorable state context. With empirical studies linked by their dialogue with theories of social movement and protest, and, in particular, recent trends that emphasize the dynamic relations among social movement groups and organizations, Racialized Protest and the State also considers the multiciplicity of state players and the roles of hostile civic actors who oppose the movements' challenges. A cutting-edge analysis of an increasingly important dimension of contentious politics in complex and diverse Western societies, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in social movements, nonviolent resistance, protest campaigns, and ethnic mobilization.
Contents
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
