Beaten, Silenced, Caged: The Costs of Activism

From the Freedom Rides to the students’ lunch counter sit-ins, the campaigns of the civil rights movement are seen as the archetypes of civil disobedience. Pineda's wonderful and brilliant book draws on rich archival and historical research to peel the layers of idealization, romanticization, a...

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Published inThe Review of politics Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 382 - 385
Main Author Delmas, Candice
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2024
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A Symposium on Erin R. Pineda's Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement
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Summary:From the Freedom Rides to the students’ lunch counter sit-ins, the campaigns of the civil rights movement are seen as the archetypes of civil disobedience. Pineda's wonderful and brilliant book draws on rich archival and historical research to peel the layers of idealization, romanticization, and ideology that have turned the classical phase of the civil rights movement (1954–1965) into both myth and protest template. This illuminating, insightful, and beautifully written book is a must-read for anyone interested in civil disobedience.
ISSN:0034-6705
1748-6858
DOI:10.1017/S0034670524000068