Seeing like an activist [electronic resource] : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	Seeing like an activist [electronic resource]: civil disobedience and the civil rights movement / Erin R. Pineda.
개인저자	Pineda, Erin R., author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]
형태사항	1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)
ISBN	9780197526446 0197526446 9780197526453 0197526454 9780197526460 0197526462
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
요약	"There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the civil rights movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and submit willingly to legal punishment in order to demand necessary legislative reforms - and facilitate the realization of core constitutional and democratic principles. Their fidelity to the spirit of the law, commitment to civility, and allegiance to American democracy provided the blueprint for activists pursuing racial justice, and set the normative horizon for liberal philosophies of civil disobedience. Seeing Like an Activist charts the emergence of this influential account of civil disobedience in the civil rights movement, and demonstrates its reliance on a narrative about black protest that is itself entangled with white supremacy. Liberal political theorists whose work informed decades of scholarship saw civil disobedience "like a white state": taking for granted the legitimacy of the constitutional order, assuming as primary the ends of constitutional integrity and stability, centering the white citizen as the normative ideal, and figuring the problem of racial injustice as limited, exceptional, and all-but-already solved. In contrast, building on historical and archival evidence, this book shows how civil rights activists, in concert with anticolonial movements across the globe, turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonization, in order to emancipate themselves and others from a racial order that needed to be fully transformed. We can recover this powerful alternative account only by adopting a different theoretical approach - one which sees activists as themselves engaged in the creative work of political theorizing"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	United States. --fast
일반주제명	Civil rights movements --United States --Historiography. Critical race theory --United States. Civil disobedience --United States --Philosophy. Civil rights movements --Historiography.
분류기호(DDC)	323.0973
언어	영어
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