Seeing like an activist

• Verfasst von: Pineda, Erin R. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Seeing like an activist
• Titelzusatz: civil disobedience and the civil rights movement
• Verf.angabe: Erin R. Pineda
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752646-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197526422.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Bürgerrechtsbewegung / (s)Gewaltloser Widerstand / (s)Geschichtsschreibung
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Pineda, Erin R.: Seeing like an activist. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021. - xiii, 265 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: MD 8560
• Sach-SW: Civil rights movements ; United States ; Historiography
• Sach-SW: Civil disobedience ; United States ; Philosophy
• Sach-SW: United States ; Race relations
• K10plus-PPN: 1756758255
• K10plus-PPN:
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Abstract

As it is popularly understood, civil disobedience is a form of constitutional patriotism: protestors have to accept legal punishment and appeal to society's core principles in order to demonstrate that they are sincere reformers, not revolutionaries. Although this template for action is based on the example of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Seeing Like an Activist' demonstrates that it profoundly misunderstands civil rights activism. Based on historical and archival evidence, it argues that civil rights activists turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonisation: to emancipate themselves and others, and in the process transform the racial order.