We have not been moved : resisting racism and militarism in 21st Century America / edited by Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, Matt Meyer and Mandy Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martinez, Elizabeth Betita.

Meyer, Matt.

Carter, Mandy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--21st century.

Peace movements--United States--History--20th century.

Peace movements.

Peace movements--United States--History--21st century.

United States--History--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><B>Elizabeth Betita Martínez</B> is a Chicana feminist and a longtime community organizer, activist, and educator. She is the author of <I>500 Years of Chicana Women's History</I>, <I>500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures</I>, and <I>De</I> <I>Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century</I>. She is the cofounder and director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice. She lives in San Francisco. <B>Matt Meyer</B> is an educator-activist, the founding cochair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and the former chair of the Consortium on Peace Research, Educa

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: King's Truth: Revolution and America's Crossroads; Resisting Racism and War: An Introduction; or, What Will It Take to Move Forward?; How the Moon Became a Stranger; By Any Means Necessary: Two Images; I. Connections, Contexts, and Challenges; Helping Hands; Wild Poppies; Are Pacifists Willing to Be Negroes? A 1950s Dialogue on Fighting Racism and Militarism, Using Nonviolence and Armed Struggle 21 Dave Dellinger, Robert Franklin Williams, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Dorothy Day; Revolutionary Democracy: A Speech Against the Vietnam War

Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One?Nonviolence and Radical Social Change; On Revolution and Equilibrium (Excerpt); Responsible Pacifism and the Puerto Rican Conflict; Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle Was So White; Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement; Combating Oppression Inside and Outside; II. (Re)Defining Racism and Militarism: What Qualifies? Who Decides?; Continental Walk, 1976-Washington, D.C.; river of a different truth; Nonviolent Change of Revolutionary Depth: A Conversation with

Regaining a Moral Compass: The Ongoing Truth of King's VisionFour Vignettes on the Road of the Broken Rifle: Reflections on War and Resistance; Questioning Our Reality; Finding the Other America; On Being a Good Anti-Racist; The Culture of White Privilege Is to Remain Silent; Towards a Radical White Identity; Weaving Narratives: The Construction of Whiteness; The Pan-Africanization of Black Power: True History, Coalition-Building, and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party: An Interview with Bob Brown, Organizer for the All- African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)

Rescuing Civil Rights from Black Power: Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First-Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era CasesThe Unacceptability of Truth: Of National Lies and Racial America; Race, History, and "A Nation of Cowards"; III. Chickens and Eggs: War, Race, and Class; Amache: Japanese-American Relocation Center, 1942-1945-Post Office; Amache; The Antiwar Campaign: More on Force without Violence; Let's Talk about Green Beans: An Interview with Dorothy Cotton; I Beg to Differ; Militarism and Racism: A Connection?; Looking at the White Working Class Historically

Chinweizu, War, and ReparationsOn Being White and Other Lies: A History of Racism in the United States; Race, Prisons, and War: Scenes from the History of U.S. Violence; IV. The Roots and Routes of War: Patriarchy and Heterosexism; Dean of Students Ann Marie Penzkover and Her Niece Mariah, Wisconsin; Genocide: remembering Bengal, 1971; Why We Need Women's Actions and Feminist Voices for Peace; Terror, Torture, and Resistance; Race, Sex, and Speech in Amerika; Disarmament and Masculinity; The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Practical, Common Sense, Day-to-Day Stuff: An Interview with Mandy Carter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781604864809

160486480X

9781604867985

1604867981

OCLC:

815037696