2017
DOI: 10.4324/9781315620992
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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

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“…According to scholars Walton, Smith, and Wallace (2017), “A social movement may be understood as a group of persons organized in a sustained, self-conscious challenge to an existing system and its values or power relationships” (p. 110). The contemporary body of literature on theories of social organization and collective action is grounded in an empirical understanding of the African American civil rights movement (1954-1965).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to scholars Walton, Smith, and Wallace (2017), “A social movement may be understood as a group of persons organized in a sustained, self-conscious challenge to an existing system and its values or power relationships” (p. 110). The contemporary body of literature on theories of social organization and collective action is grounded in an empirical understanding of the African American civil rights movement (1954-1965).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, a critical eye is something that we want Black youth to possess in bountiful supply. This is obviously not a new concern, as Black critics of American society have long argued that mainstream American institutions can be quite faulty in their treatment of Blacks themselves and the subjects that Blacks hold dear (Walton et al, 2017). That is why indigenous Black media sources have been available to the Black population since 1827 and the founding of the first Black-owned newspaper, Freedom’s Journal .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Typically, U.S. minority groups self-report distrust in government fairly consistently, an attribute many political scientists and historians ascribe to decades of intentional and ongoing disenfranchisement and voter suppression (Shaw, DeSipio, Pinderhughes, & Travis, 2018). However, Walton, Smith, and Wallace (2017) note that, for the Black community, the perceived responsiveness of the federal government to their needs and interests, particularly protecting their civil rights, impacts their political trust and political engagement. Importantly, the PIAAC survey data used in this analysis were collected at the end of the first term of the U.S.’s first elected Black president, Barack Obama.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%