Missing Class : Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.

Intro -- Missing Class -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Online Tables and Appendixes -- Introduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building -- Part I. Class Diversity among Activists -- 1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses -- 2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists -- 3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles -- 4. Movement Traditions and Their Class-Cultural Troubles -- Part II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles -- 5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion -- Class Speech Differences I: Humor and Laughter -- 6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire -- Class Speech Differences II: Abstract and Concrete Vocabulary -- Class Speech Differences III: Racial Terms -- 7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices -- Class Speech Differences IV: Talking Long, Talking Often -- 8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve -- Class Speech Differences V: Anger, Swearing, and Insults -- 9. 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Methodology Notes -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In the first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that run the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today.

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