Kathleen M Blee

Democracy in the Making

How Activist Groups Form

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199842766
• ISBN-10: 0199842760
• Artikelnr.: 34156299

Autorenporträt

Kathleen M. Blee is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s and Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Making Democracy
Chapter 2: Theorizing the Emergence of Activism
Chapter 3: Who Belongs?
Chapter 4: What's the Problem?
Chapter 5: How Should We Treat Each Other?
Chapter 6: Lessons
Appendices
Bibliography