Bibliograph

Missing class, strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright

Type

Label

Missing class, strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Missing class

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

861274106

Responsibility statement

Betsy Leondar-Wright

Sub title

strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures

Table Of Contents

Introduction: activist class cultures as a key to movement building -- Why look through a class lens? : five stories through three lenses -- Applying class concepts to US activists -- Four class categories of activists and their typical group troubles -- Movement traditions and their class cultural troubles -- Where is everybody? : approaches to recruitment and group cohesion -- Class speech differences I : humor and laughter -- Activating the inactive : leadership and group process solutions that backfire -- Class speech differences II : abstract and concrete vocabulary -- Class speech differences III : racial terms -- Diversity ironies : clashing anti-racism frames and practices -- Class speech differences IV : talking long, talking often -- Overtalkers : coping with the universal pet peeve -- Class speech differences V : anger, swearing, and insults -- Activists behaving badly : responses to extreme behavior violations -- Class speech differences VI : missing class talk -- Conclusion : building a movement with the strengths of all class cultures

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