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Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement
Privileged Morality, Race Realities
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2010
Summary
While a great deal of research has been done about many aspects of the death penalty, very little attention has been paid to the movement organized against it. Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement fills that gap with an empirical examination of the external and internal factors that shape the role race plays in the anti-death penalty movement. While the death rows across the U.S. are overwhelmingly filled with racial minorities and the poor, the ranks of the anti-death penalty movement are dominated by white, middle-class professionals. The attention given to race arise out of this racial distinction between death row inmates and the activists who advocate for them. By conducting interviews with white, black, and Latino anti-death penalty activists, this book examines the influence of race on the mobilization of activists and their approach toward abolition. The concepts of political opportunity, mobilizing structures, and framing provided by the political process model, are used to describe the complex manner in which moral opposition to the death penalty is shaped by the racial realities of the activists. Although racial tensions lie just below the surface, they nonetheless create real obstacles for the movement as it strives to build a racially diverse coalition of activists aimed at death penalty abolition.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2038-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4328-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
302
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 01. Political Process Theory and the Anti–Death Penalty Movement: An Overview No access Pages 13 - 60
Chapter 02. Becoming Mobilized against the Death Penalty No access Pages 61 - 96
Chapter 03. Political Opportunities and Constraints on Activism No access Pages 97 - 144
Chapter 04. Organizational Dynamics in the Movement No access Pages 145 - 194
Chapter 05. Framing Opposition to the Death Penalty No access Pages 195 - 234
Chapter 06. Future Directions No access Pages 235 - 270
Appendix A: Methodology No access Pages 271 - 274
Appendix B: Demographic Characteristics of Sample No access Pages 275 - 276
Appendix C: Anti–Death Penalty Organizations Represented by the Activists No access Pages 277 - 284
