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To Defend This Sunrise
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the
Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and
transnational modes of activism to remap the nation's racial order
under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy.
The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women
activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of
racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial
dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores
how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario
Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political,
economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the
Sandinista state's co-optation of multicultural discourse and
growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate
their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new
forms of \"multicultural dispossession.\" This concept describes the
ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of
its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of
democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal
practices and policies that undermine black political demands and
weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims
of these activists against the state.
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The other digital China : nonconfrontational activism on the social web
The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web maps out the emerging ecosystem of Chinese activism 2.0 that traverses multiple sectors-the NGO sector, universities, the corporate sector, and the IT sector-where change agents are creating social good in non-contentious ways and engaged in constructing the new \"social\" under difficult ideological constraints. Focusing on social media and tech practices emerging from China's social sector in recent years, this book provides a multifaceted look at the Chinese society caught at a transformative moment, thanks in part to the arrival of Web 2.0 technology and the accompanying cyber utopianism, as well as the Communist Party's recently alleged commitment to policies aimed at energizing the hitherto weak social structure. Wang develops the idea of \"nonconfrontational activism\" and argues that it's possible to talk about the agency of \"change-makers\" even in authoritarian countries.-- Provided by publisher.
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Seven social movements that changed America
How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinises the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era movements follow - the Townsend campaign that brought us Social Security and the creation of unemployment aid. Proceeding then to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, which inspired the civil rights movement and launched Martin Luther King Jr.'s career, the narrative barrels into the 1960s-70s with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers' union.
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