Browsing by Subject "Social Movements"
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"One People without Borders": The Lost Roots of the Immigrants' Rights Movement, 1954-2006
(2019)Why, this dissertation asks, did the same Mexican American groups who in the 1950s warned about a “wetback invasion,” come, in the span of only two decades, to take up the cause of the undocumented—even to see themselves ... -
Shadow Zones: Contraband and Social Contract in the Borderlands of Tunisia
(2018)Although Tunisia has been celebrated as the unique success story of the Arab Spring, its emergent democracy has failed to resolve the structural inequalities that caused the 2011 revolution, or meaningfully include marginal ... -
Taking the Moral Ground: Protestants, Feminists, and Gay Equality in North Carolina, 1970-1980
(2018)“Taking the Moral Ground” examines the relationship between Protestantism and the movements for feminist and gay equality in North Carolina during the 1970s and 1980s to answer two central questions: How did a group of white ... -
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela
(2016)We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela, draws on fifteen months of field research accompanying organizers, participating in protests, ...
