Mahrouse, Gada.

Conflicted Commitments : Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (245 pages)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Passport or Carte Blanche? On Race, Privilege, and Power in Transnational Solidarity Activism -- 1 Whiteness and the Divergent Responses to Rachel Corrie's Death -- 2 The CPT Kidnapping: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Racialized "Politics of Life" -- 3 The Compelling Story of the First-World Activist in the War Zone -- 4 Race-conscious Transnational Activists with Cameras: Mediators of Compassion -- 5 Conflicted Commitments: The "Fine Line Between Advocacy and Imperialism" -- 6 "Split Affinities": Gender and Sexual Violence in Solidarity Movements -- 7 Liberal Universalism and Pragmatism: Implications for Decolonizing Solidarity -- Afterword: Solidarity Tourism and the Depoliticization of Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.

9780773592087


Solidarity.
Humanitarianism-Political aspects.
Social justice-Political aspects.
Race-Social aspects.
Race relations.
Power (Social sciences).


Electronic books.

HM126 -- .M347 2014eb

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