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Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire
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2011
Summary
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning in the Gandhian repertoire’s transnational diffusion.
Collective learning shaped the invention of the Gandhian repertoire in South Africa and India as well as its transnational diffusion to the United States. In the 1920s, African Americans and their allies responded to Gandhi’s ideas and practices by reproducing stereotypes. Meaningful collective learning started with translation of the Gandhian repertoire in the 1930s and small-scale experimentation in the early 1940s. After surviving the doldrums of the McCarthy era, full implementation of the Gandhian repertoire finally occurred during the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1965. This book goes beyond existing scholarship by contributing deeper and finer insights on how transnational diffusion between social movements actually works. It highlights the contemporary relevance of Gandhian nonviolence and its successful journey across borders.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4577-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4579-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
211
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter Two: Invention of the Gandhian Repertoire No access Pages 19 - 42
Chapter Three: Initial Perception of Gandhi No access Pages 43 - 62
Chapter Four: Translation of the Gandhian Repertoire No access Pages 63 - 82
Chapter Five: Experimentation with the Gandhian Repertoire No access Pages 83 - 108
Chapter Six: Survival in the Doldrums No access Pages 109 - 128
Chapter Seven: Full Implementation of the Gandhian Repertoire No access Pages 129 - 158
Chapter Eight: From Heyday to Decline No access Pages 159 - 186
Chapter Nine: Conclusion No access Pages 187 - 200
