It is an illustration of resource mobilization theory, but I found it a really great read and really fun to teach with. It was used in an intro sociology course when I taught at Colgate.
This is an excellent book about the black women's liberation movement and the twists and turns: Kimberly Springer's Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980.
Which pairs up pretty nicely with Alice Echols, Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975.
There's another one, written by a once prominent white feminist, but I can't recall the title or author right now. Unfortunately all my books are in boxes, and I can't refresh my memory or list all the related histories of identity political movements I've read the last four years. But one thing about Springer's book - and the one by the white feminist whose name I can't recall -- is that they both give you a really good understanding of what it was like, on the ground, to watch the emergence of a nationalist movements and cultural identity movements here in the u.s., which were specifically in response to the racism found in white politically left struggles but also very clearly in the rhetoric of the emerging new left who, influenced by Marcuse and Fromm, were in thrall to the idea that they had to find *the* subject of history in some identity that was somehow more oppressed or more originally oppressed than the industrial working class.
Michael Burawoy has some cool stuff by his students in Ethnography Unbound and Global Ethnography. It's more geared toward people who are students of sociology, though, but sometimes if you're putting together your own reader you can find a gem or two.
shag
> Dear All:
> I am teaching the "Social Movements since the 60s" class this Spring -
> not
> my course or my title but interesting and probably fun, nevertheless -
> and I
> am looking for suggestions w/r/t readings and media.
> Some initial thoughts:
> 1. Clearly there's far far too much that's occurred to even begin to
> claim
> to cover at all comprehensively.
> 2. I categorically do not want this to be a sociology of social
> movements
> class - I want it to be about movements not resource mobilization,
> framing,
> etc. I want to excite and provoke students NOT put them to sleep.
> 3. I clearly have to set a baseline with an overview of Progressive,
> Old
> Left, New Left efforts before, say, 1968.
> 4. I am somewhere between interested in and committed to showing that
> the
> movements "before" the 60s didn't disappear and are in fact
> intertwined with
> the ones "since". Again, not my class, not my title/formulation.
> 5. I have to cover the New Right and, at first blush, want to present
> it as
> a strategic melding of romantic right wing cultural populism and
> hard-nosed
> right wing neoliberal political economy... not that my students will
> know
> what these things are ahead of time.
> 6. I also have to cover ongoing struggles for national liberation,
> indigenous resistance and transnational movements.
> Any and all suggestions - sent to me here or privately - would be
> appreciated and I will certainly share what I get and finally decide
> on.
> I first sent this out to the list associated with Critical Sociology,
> but
> got very little back.
> Yours,
> Alan
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