1st Edition

Racialized Protest and the State Resistance and Repression in a Divided America

Edited By Hank Johnston, Pamela Oliver Copyright 2020
250 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black Lives movement, mainstream Black organizations, the Mexican-American Dreamer groups, immigrant-rights mobilizations, Arab-American resistance,... Read more

1. Pacification and Resistance in Racialized States: A Comparative View

Hank Johnston and Pamela Oliver

2. Defensive Adaptations: NAACP Responses to the U.S. Post-Racial Project 1970–1990

Belinda Robnett

3. Resisting Repression: The Black Lives Movement in Context

Pamela Oliver

4. Racist Policing, Practical Resonance, and Frame Alignment in Ferguson

Joshua Bloom and Zachary David Frampton

5. Active Abeyance, Political Opportunity, and the "New" White Supremacy

Pete Simi and Robert Futrell

6. The Biographical Consequences of Repression: Arab Americans in Post-9/11 America

Wayne A. Santoro and Marian Azab

7. Localized Political Contexts: Undocumented Youth Mobilization During Hostile Times

Edelina M. Burciaga and Lisa M. Martinez

8. Gaining a Voice: Storytelling and Undocumented Youth Activism in Chicago

Thomas Swerts

9. Racial, Ethnic, and Immigration Protest During Year One of the Trump Presidency

Kenneth T. Andrews, Neal Caren and Todd Lu

Biography

Hank Johnston is Professor of Sociology and Hansen Chair of Peace and Nonviolence Studies at San Diego State University, USA. His recent books include Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State, What is a Social Movement?, and States and Social Movements.

Pamela Oliver was the Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and is now Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an internationally recognized scholar of social movements and protest, and author of numerous research articles in sociology’s leading journals.