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Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement. Erin R. Pineda

Pineda, Erin R 2021

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  • Titre:
    Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement. Erin R. Pineda
  • Auteur: Pineda, Erin R
  • Éditeur: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, C 2021
  • Sujets: Désobéissance civile -- États-Unis;
    Défense des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis;
    Mouvements des droits civiques -- États-Unis;
    Civil rights movements -- Historiography -- United States;
    Critical race theory -- United States;
    Civil disobedience -- Philosophy -- United States
  • Notes: Notes bibliographiques pages [203]-254. Index
  • Contient: Introduction Seeing Like a White State An Entire World in Motion Incarceration as Liberation Forcing the Better Argument The Techniques of Disavowal
  • Résumé: "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 submitted 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"
  • Langue: Anglais
  • Date d'édition: 2021
  • Identifiant: 978-0-19-752642-2 ; 978-0-19-752643-9
  • Desc. matérielle: 1 volume (XIII-265 pages) : couverture illustrée en couleurs ; 24 cm
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