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Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement

Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement

Smith, Christian

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0226763366
ISBN13: 9780226763361
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jun 15 1996
Pages: 484
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns--Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance--this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism.

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