Local Actions

Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America

By: Melissa Checker, Maggie Fishman

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25 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change.

Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country-from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Each one examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right.

Moving far beyond the walls of academia, the contributors address the complex issues that arise when researchers have stakes in the subjects they study. Scholars can play multiple roles in the activist struggles they recount, and these essays illustrate how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism.

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Engagingly written, the volume will appeal across the readership spectrum, from general readers to professionals...Recommended. All levels and libraries. -- S. Cable Choice The volumes focus on activism and identity provides a compelling image of an activist strategy for advancing social research. -- Elisia L. Cohen Argumentation And Advocacy The strength Checker and Fishman's Local Actions is in its clearly written, accessible case studies of efforts at social change. -- Karen Brodkin Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Local Actions is a welcome volume that represents a (still) rare instance of anthropologists engaging in the study of political processes in western society; it provides us with detail-rich and nuanced understandings of politics as it takes place in practice, and in everyday settings. -- Davide Pero Social Anthropology

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Politics & Government Regional Government Society & Culture Cultural Studies Archaeology Sociology

Foreword	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. XIX
Introduction	p. 1
Treading Murky Waters: Day-To-Day Dilemmas in the Construction of a Pluralistic U.S. Environmental Movement	p. 27
Creating Art, Creating Citizens: Arts Education as Cultural Activism	p. 51
Creating a Political Space for American Indian Economic Development: Indian Gaming and American Indian Activism	p. 71
"The Calculus of Pain": Violence, Anthropological Ethics, and the Category Transgender	p. 89
We Shall Overcome? Changing Politics and Changing Sexuality in the Ex-Gay Movement	p. 111
Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of Class	p. 136
Food Fights: Contesting "Cultural Diversity" in Crown Heights	p. 159
FOB by or Tight? "Multicultural Day" and Other Struggles in Two Silicon Valley High Schools	p. 184
Gathering "Roots" and Making History in the Korean Adoptee Community	p. 208
Activism and Exile: Palestinianness and the Politics of Solidarity	p. 231
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