Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left

Breines, Wini; Evans, Sara M.

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“…SNCC's racial balance was radically altered in ways that raised concern for some leaders. Dynamics around interracial sexual relationships between white students and Black activists created a good deal of conflict (Evans, 1980). A few white volunteers, as was feared, approached their work with a level of arrogance that offended organizers and the poor Black communities in which they worked.…”

Section: Organizing During the Civil Rights Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moving away from community organizing, anti‐capitalist critique and often high‐risk action, many chose instead to focus on white identity and white privilege (Middlebrook, 2010). This shift should be contextualized amidst the cultural and political victories won by BIPOC liberation struggles and the resurgent feminist efforts they inspired (Evans, 1980). Many in the women's movement endeavored to build a culture that acknowledged and sought to address the personal and relational impacts of dominance.…”

Section: A More Introspective Antiracismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice

Russo

2023

Sociology Compass

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There is a long history of small groups of white activists engaging in social movements for racial justice led by Black Indigenous and People of Color in the United States. Yet organized white antiracism has received much less study than white racism. From forging antiracist identities to crafting racial justice organizing strategies, white people's involvement in BIPOC‐led liberation struggles has proven both promising and problematic. This article explores what scholars know about white people's involvement in US‐ based racial justice efforts in order to pose central questions and quandaries for future study. It focuses on white antiracist activism in the United States beginning in the Civil Rights era. During the late 20th century, US‐based racial justice campaigns became fragmented across diverse networks and issue areas making it harder to locate groups of white people collectively aligning with a visible and unified social movement for racial justice. This appears to be shifting. Racial logics and racist regimes have proven themselves eminently flexible, and investigating how white people have tried to join social movements for racial justice illuminates important areas for future study.

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Section: Organizing During the Civil Rights Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A More Introspective Antiracismmentioning

confidence: 99%

White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice

Russo

2023

Sociology Compass

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“…The civil rights movement transformed the political environment, creating a culture dense with movement frames and tactics while altering the political opportunity structure for other challengers. In general, mainstream culture was becoming more liberal, racial reform was on the political agenda, and spin-off movements were being launched (e.g., the women's movement), partly because of the change in culture and political opportunity resulting from the civil rights insurgencies (Evans 1979;McAdam 1988McAdam , 1995Minkoff 1997).…”

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How the Civil Rights Movement REVITALIZED LABOR MILITANCY

Isaac,

Christiansen

2002

Am Sociol Rev

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Can newly ascendant social movements revitalize the militant culture of older, institutionalized movements? Recent studies have focused on relations between new ascendant social movements like the civil rights, women's, and peace movements that emerged during the postwar cycle of protest, and therefore have been unable to address this question. Focusing on revitalization as a qualitatively different form of intermovement relation, the authors examine the possibility that civil rights movement insurgencies and organizations revitalized workplace labor militancy during the postwar decades. Time-series models show that the civil rights movement fueled an expanded militant worker culture that challenged management and sometimes union leadership. However, this revitalization of labor militancy was contingent on institutional context (stronger in the public sector than the private sector) and form of insurgent action (protests, riots, organizations) differentially embedded in historical phases (civil rights versus Black Power) of movement development. Theoretical implications for the study of social movements, industrial relations, and class conflict are discussed.

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“…Most scholars who study the 1960s and 1970s recognize the importance of Students for a Democratic Society, the Free Speech Movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Young Americans for Freedom (Carson 1981;Gitlin 1987;Miller 1987;Andrew 1996). Many highlight student participation in antiwar activism and women's liberation (Evans 1979). Some address the participation of students in struggles for black studies, ethnic studies, and women's studies (Rojas 2010;Biondi 2012;Kendi 2012).…”

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Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s

Stein¹

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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In the 1970s, LGBT students at fourteen US colleges and universities took their institutions to court after newly established gay student groups were denied official recognition. While the students suffered defeats along the way, by the end of the decade they had won the war for recognition. This article provides a broad overview of these cases, discusses their significance, and argues that we cannot understand the struggle for gay student group recognition without considering its relationship to the state regulation of sex. Advocates for gay student groups won most of their battles by responding to the claim that recognition would be tantamount to aiding and abetting criminal sexual activities. They did so by pursuing strategies of desexualization, which denied that gay student groups encouraged same-sex sex. The article explores these strategies by focusing on three 1976 Virginia cases, one about gay student group recognition, one about the criminalization of same-sex sex, and one about the application of the state’s sodomy law to an interracial threesome. The divergent outcomes help us understand the strategic effectiveness and political limitations of LGBT desexualization strategies.

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Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left

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White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice

White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice

How the Civil Rights Movement REVITALIZED LABOR MILITANCY

Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s

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