Mobilizing public opinion : Black insurgency and racial attitudes in the civil rights era / Taeku Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Taeku.

Series:

Studies in communication, media, and public opinion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Racism.

Public opinion.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Racism--United States--Public opinion.

African Americans--Attitudes.

White people--United States--Attitudes.

White people.

Public opinion--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Summary:

List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1. Elite Opinion Theory and Activated Mass Opinion 2. Black Insurgency and the Dynamics of Mass Opinion 3. The Sovereign Status of Survey Data 4. Constituency Mail as Public Opinion 5. The Racial, Regional, and Organizational Bases of Mass Activation 6. Contested Meanings and Movement Agency 7. Two Nations, Separate Grooves Appendix One: Question Wording, Scales, and Coding of Variables in Survey Analysis Appendix Two: Bibliographic Sources for Racial Attitude Items, 1937-1965 Appendix Three: Sampling and Coding of Constituency Mail Appendix Four: Typology of Interpretive Frames Notes References Acknowledgments Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-282) and index.

ISBN:

0226470245

0226470253

OCLC:

48256195