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Profiles 59 ongoing separatist movements around the world, with attention given to not only prominent movements, such as the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Sikhs in India, but also lesser-known peoples such as the Saami in the Arctic and the Inuit in Canada. Each of the movement essays includes a description of the people and a summary of their core aspirations--political, cultural and economic; the movement's history; leadership--political parties,...
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"Right Face imparts the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national politics. Based on extensive archival sources, the book provides an analysis of the movement's intellectual and organizational development. It recounts the often bitter struggle to define the meaning of conservatism in modern America, the search for influential national outlets,...
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"Native Americans in the United States created political, economic, and social movements to adjust to major changes that affected their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans have dealt with an onslaught of non-Indian land claims, the appropriation of their homelands, and the destruction of their ways of life. Through various movements, Native Americans accepted, rejected, or accommodated themselves to the nontraditional worldviews of the colonizers...
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Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the [American] West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the...
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The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was on average more than one significant terrorist act in this country every week, and the FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American...
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"'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima' shows that music played a central role in expressing antinuclear sentiments and mobilizing political resistance in Japan. Combining musical analysis with ethnographic participation, author Noriko Manabe offers an innovative typology of the spaces central to the performance of protest music--cyberspace, demonstrations, festivals, and recordings."--Publisher information.
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