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03373aam a2200409 i 4500 001 4D345946AD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210505010019 008 201023s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043416 020 $a 019752642X 020 $a 9780197526422 020 $a 0197526438 020 $a 9780197526439 035 $a (OCoLC)1206220253 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.615 P538 2021 100 1 $a Pineda, Erin R. $e author. 245 10 $a Seeing like an activist : $b civil disobedience and the civil rights movement / $c Erin R. Pineda. 246 30 $a Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiii, 265 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the civil rights movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and submit willingly to legal punishment in order to demand necessary legislative reforms - and facilitate the realization of core constitutional and democratic principles. Their fidelity to the spirit of the law, commitment to civility, and allegiance to American democracy provided the blueprint for activists pursuing racial justice, and set the normative horizon for liberal philosophies of civil disobedience. Seeing Like an Activist charts the emergence of this influential account of civil disobedience in the civil rights movement, and demonstrates its reliance on a narrative about black protest that is itself entangled with white supremacy. Liberal political theorists whose work informed decades of scholarship saw civil disobedience "like a white state": taking for granted the legitimacy of the constitutional order, assuming as primary the ends of constitutional integrity and stability, centering the white citizen as the normative ideal, and figuring the problem of racial injustice as limited, exceptional, and all-but-already solved. In contrast, building on historical and archival evidence, this book shows how civil rights activists, in concert with anticolonial movements across the globe, turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonization, in order to emancipate themselves and others from a racial order that needed to be fully transformed. We can recover this powerful alternative account only by adopting a different theoretical approach - one which sees activists as themselves engaged in the creative work of political theorizing"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Civil rights movements $z United States $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Critical race theory $z United States. 650 0 $a Civil disobedience $z United States $x Philosophy. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Pineda, Erin R., $t Seeing like an activist $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. $z 9780197526453 $w (DLC) 2020043417 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100245.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517010634.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220520010542.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012031.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4D345946AD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search