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Introduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Tables and Figures ix
- List of Online Tables and Appendixes xi
- Introduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building 1
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Part I. Class Diversity among Activists
- 1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses 9
- 2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists 29
- 3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles 38
- 4. Movement Traditions and Their Class-Cultural Troubles 64
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Part II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles
- 5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion 87
- 6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire 121
- 7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices 161
- 8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve 187
- 9. Activists Behaving Badly: Responses to Extreme Behavior Violations 199
- Acknowledgments 233
- Appendix: Methodology Notes 235
- Notes 245
- References 257
- Index 269
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Tables and Figures ix
- List of Online Tables and Appendixes xi
- Introduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building 1
-
Part I. Class Diversity among Activists
- 1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses 9
- 2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists 29
- 3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles 38
- 4. Movement Traditions and Their Class-Cultural Troubles 64
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Part II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles
- 5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion 87
- 6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire 121
- 7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices 161
- 8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve 187
- 9. Activists Behaving Badly: Responses to Extreme Behavior Violations 199
- Acknowledgments 233
- Appendix: Methodology Notes 235
- Notes 245
- References 257
- Index 269