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Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226555550

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In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."—James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Publisher : Cram101
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781428823266

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Author : Valerie R. Still
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social movements
ISBN :

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Abstract: The political process model is a social movement theory which analyzes social movements as well-organized power struggles that develop over long periods of time. In Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Doug McAdam examines the Civil Rights Movement as a political process that began well before most scholars proposed in previous scholarship of the Civil Rights Movement. While most scholars considered the mid 1950's as being the start of the Civil Rights Movements, McAdam applied his model to the history of African American protest and insurgency between 1876 and 1970, suggesting a longer period for this social movement. Unlike former models such as collective behavior, mass society and resource mobilization, the political process model presents a theory in which insurgents are not discontent crazed individuals who erratically strike out against society with violence in hope of altering momentary displeasure, nor does insurgency depend solely on levels of external resources to achieve group objectives. In this thesis, I apply the political process model to the history of African American activism between 1800 and 1860, focusing on the clandestine system of escape known as the Underground Railroad. The modern Civil Rights Movement has often been thought of as the first major social and political movement among African Americans for freedom and equality. This study, however, by examining the Underground Railroad using the Political Process model, will demonstrate that the historical context of politically motivated resistance and organized social protest of African Americans has its roots at least in the early-nineteenth century, when this successful, well-organized network for assisting runaway slaves developed.

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226555522

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In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."--Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."--James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199394261

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By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process. The Civil Rights struggle and the white backlash it provoked reintroduced the centrifugal force of social movements into American politics, ushering in an especially active and sustained period of movement/party dynamism, culminating in today's tug of war between the Tea Party and Republican establishment for control of the GOP. In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s. Angered by Lyndon Johnson's more aggressive embrace of civil rights reform in 1964, Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats for the first time in history, setting in motion a sustained regional realignment that would, in time, serve as the electoral foundation for a resurgent and increasingly more conservative Republican Party.

Author : Warren N. Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317732731

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This study helps to fill a major void in the literature on African American politics, third parties, and mass movements. Established in 1980, the National Black Political Party (NBIPP) existed for six years and represents the most ambitious attempt by African Americans to establish an independent third-party movement. At its height, NBIPP had chapters throughout the country and had attracted to its membership a young, well-educated, often professional following which had been influenced by the black power movement of the 1960s. This is one of the very few book-length studies of this interesting and important movement. Holmes focuses on a party chapter in Akron, OH, and examines the impact of party building on local mass movement activities an on the political development and continuing political involvement of party members. Utilizing the political process model and issue evolution theory, Holmes explores the linkage between mass movements and normal politics within the African American community. The book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the current resurgence of black nationalism and how this resurgence fits into a more general pattern of African American politics in which the (sometimes antagonistic) interaction of mass movements and institution building serves to define the African American political agenda a select the elites who will implement it. This book will be useful for students of African American Politics, Sociology of Mass Movements, and Third-Party politics. It will be valuable to the research in those areas, as well as the more general reader who is interested in the African American experience.

Author : Joshua Bloom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0520271858

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Presents an overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party, revealing the political dynamics that drove the growth of this revolutionary movement, and its unraveling.

Author : Walter Edward Williams
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN :

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"A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research book"--T.p. verso. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 167-173.

Author : Steven F. Lawson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739100875

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Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"-the struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process. Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques-from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation-that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them.

Author : James Max Fendrich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1993-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791413241

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Shifts the focus away from luminaries such as Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Marion Barry, to examine how the lives of more representative civil rights activists have been affected by intense political experience. Traces their career choices, and explores what kind of citizenship they practice. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR