Beaten, Silenced, Caged: The Costs of Activism

• Published in: The Review of politics Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 382 - 385
• Main Author: Delmas, Candice
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2024
• Subjects: A Symposium on Erin R. Pineda's Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement

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...