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Local actions cultural activism, power, and public life in America
Title:
Local actions cultural activism, power, and public life in America
Author:
Checker, Melissa.
ISBN:
9780231502429

9780231128513

9780231128506
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 254 p.)
Contents:
Treading murky waters: day-to-day dilemmas in the construction of a pluralistic U.S. environmental movement / Creating art, creating citizens: arts education as cultural activism / Creating a political space for American Indian economic development: Indian gaming and American Indian activism / "The calculus of pain": violence, anthropological ethics, and the category transgender / We shall overcome? Changing politics and changing sexuality in the ex-gay movement / Sins of our soccer moms: servant evangelism and the spiritual injuries of class / Food fights: contesting "cultural diversity" in Crown Heights / FOBby or tight? "Multicultural day" and other struggles in two Silicon Valley high schools / Gathering "roots" and making history in the Korean adoptee community / Activism and exile: palestinianness and the politics of solidarity
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