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1 online resource (xx, 254 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Faye Ginsburg -- Introduction / Melissa Checker, Maggie Fishman -- Treading murky waters: day-to-day dilemmas in the construction of a pluralistic U.S. environmental movement / Melissa Checker -- Creating art, creating citizens: arts education as cultural activism / Maggie Fishman -- Creating a political space for American Indian economic development: Indian gaming and American Indian activism / Kate Spilde -- "The calculus of pain": violence, anthropological ethics, and the category transgender / David Valentine -- We shall overcome? Changing politics and changing sexuality in the ex-gay movement / Tanya Erzen -- Sins of our soccer moms: servant evangelism and the spiritual injuries of class / Omri Elisha -- Food fights: contesting "cultural diversity" in Crown Heights / Henry Goldschmidt -- FOBby or tight? "Multicultural day" and other struggles in two Silicon Valley high schools / Shalini Shankar -- Gathering "roots" and making history in the Korean adoptee community / Eleana Kim -- Activism and exile: palestinianness and the politics of solidarity / Rabab Abdulhadi. |
| Summary |
Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as ""ghettos, "" th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social change -- United States.
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Social change. |
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United States. |
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Social participation -- United States.
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Social participation. |
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Community life -- United States.
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Community life. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Checker, Melissa.
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Fishman, Maggie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Local actions. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 0231128517 0231128509 (DLC) 2003059554 (OCoLC)52728761 |
| ISBN |
0231502427 (electronic book) |
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9780231502429 (electronic book) |
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9780231128513 |
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0231128517 |
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9780231128506 |
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0231128509 |
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