| Description |
xx, 254 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Faye Ginsburg -- Introduction / Melissa Checker, Maggie Fishman -- Treading murky waters : day-to-day dilemmas in the construction of a pluralistic U.S. environmental movement / Melissa Checker -- Creating art, creating citizens : arts education as cultural activism / Maggie Fishman -- Creating a political space for American Indian economic development : Indian gaming and American Indian activism / Kate Spilde -- "Calculus of pain" : violence, anthropological ethics, and the category transgender / David Valentine -- We shall overcome? Changing politics and changing sexuality in the ex-gay movement / Tanya Erzen -- Sins of our soccer moms : servant evangelism and the spiritual injuries of class / Omri Elisha -- Food fights : contesting "cultural diversity" in Crown Heights / Henry Goldschmidt -- FOBby or tight? "Multicultural day" and other struggles in two Silicon Valley high schools / Shalini Shankar -- Gathering "roots" and making history in the Korean adoptee community / Eleana Kim -- Activism and exile : palestinianness and the politics of solidarity / Rabab Abdulhadi. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions.
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Social change.
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Social participation.
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Community life.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| Added Author |
Checker, Melissa.
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Fishman, Maggie.
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| ISBN |
0231128517 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0231128509 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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