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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pineda, Erin R., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil disobedience--United States--Philosophy.

Civil disobedience.

Critical race theory--United States.

Critical race theory.

Civil rights movements--United States--Historiography.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752645-4

0-19-752646-2

0-19-752644-6

OCLC:

1224019429