How long? How long?: African-American women in the struggle for civil rights
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Main Author: Robnett, Belinda 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1997
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index
Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- Sustaining the momentum of the movement -- Sowing the seeds of mass mobilization -- Bridging students to the movement -- Race, class, and culture matter -- Bringing the movement home to small cities and rural communities -- Cooperation and conflict in the civil rights movement -- The movement unravels from the bottom -- Theoretical conclusions
This work retells the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of its African-American women participants. Intended as a compelling and readable narrative history, it presents a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the civil-rights movement, African-American women, in favour of higher-profile African-American men and white women
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 256 p.)
ISBN:128045413X
1423741145
1602562040
9781280454134
9781423741145
9781602562042

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