Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
ISBN-10
0197603955
ISBN-13
9780197603956
Series
ReckonIng
Category
History
Pages
305
Language
English
Published
2022
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Deva R. Woodly

Description

"Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements is an analysis of the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics, while also laying out and contextualizing the social movement's unique political philosophy, Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism, along with documenting measurable political effects in terms of changing public meanings, public opinion, and policy. Throughout the text, the author interweaves theoretical and empirical observations, rendering both an illustration of this movement and an analysis of the work social movements do in democracy"--

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