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Symbolic citizenship, ethical practice, and the body: Competing political projects in the black civil rights movement 1954--1968.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbolic citizenship, ethical practice, and the body: Competing political projects in the black civil rights movement 1954--1968./
Author:	Hohle, Randolph H, Jr.
Description:	334 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1565.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	History, Black. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3311708
ISBN:	9780549591887

Symbolic citizenship, ethical practice, and the body: Competing political projects in the black civil rights movement 1954--1968.
Hohle, Randolph H, Jr.

Symbolic citizenship, ethical practice, and the body: Competing political projects in the black civil rights movement 1954--1968. - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1565.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2008.

Despite the numerous scholarly interest and research on the American black civil rights movement, there is a lack of research and understanding on how they approached citizenship. This paper argues that competing black political projects made "symbolic citizenship" claims: how social movements create the normative ideas of good citizenship they claim to represent by fashioning styles of political rhetoric, civic practice, bodily posture and affective self-mastery. Based on archival research of primary source text (training manuals, organizing pamphlets, minutes to meetings, speeches/writings) and discursive and comparative methods, this paper uses the two dominant civil rights political projects, the rights and black nationalist projects, as empirical cases to distinguish a set of historically embedded categories of black political practice. On the one hand, the rights project appealed to the idea of good American citizenship and used discourses of good black citizenship as a deracializing strategy to associate blacks with idealized American citizenship. On the other hand, the black nationalist project rejected universalistic claims of good America citizenship and used discourses of black authenticity to produce an idea of an racially pure, or authentic black political agent, in opposition to ideas of whiteness and deracializing strategies. Rather than produce a set of ethical practices that attached the black self with American nationhood, the black nationalists shaped a set of ethical practices to secure control of and govern all black communities. Based on their different symbolic citizenship strategies and understandings of American citizenship, this dissertation analyzes how the competing projects produced an competing ideals of good black citizens and authentic black citizens, evidenced in how they differed in (1) directing their political practice at the national or local level for continued reform, (2) how each political project organized movement programs and 'measured' black citizenship, (3) the pedagogical techniques that instructed blacks how to master personal, social and civic ethics, and (4) how they approached economic reform and urban revitalization. The legacy of the political projects normative claims on contemporary representations of black citizenship have bifurcated black political practice that demands techniques of deracialized self to integrate on a national level, while local representations of authentic black citizenship are anchored to the margins. The contemporary implications represent how understandings of citizens continue to be an important, yet overlooked, aspect of how social movements and minority groups makes claims for civic inclusion.

ISBN: 9780549591887Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017776
History, Black.

Symbolic citizenship, ethical practice, and the body: Competing political projects in the black civil rights movement 1954--1968.
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