Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement / Erin R. Pineda.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197526460Subject(s): Civil rights movements -- United States -- Historiography | Civil disobedience -- United States -- Philosophy | United States -- Race relations
| Politics and Government | Politics & governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197526422DDC classification: 323.0973 LOC classification: E185.615 | .P538 2021Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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