The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social MovementsRoutledge, 2006 - 375 pages Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |
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... result of its interrelations with B and C , and these ' parts ' in turn gain relational properties as a result of their interactions within the system . In other words , the ' parts ' are engaged in a dynamic , perpetually unfolding ...
... result of its interrelations with B and C , and these ' parts ' in turn gain relational properties as a result of their interactions within the system . In other words , the ' parts ' are engaged in a dynamic , perpetually unfolding ...
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... result of the mass media's unquenchable penchant for novelty . McCarthy and McPhail ( 1998 , 84 ) assert that since the late 1960s there has been a gradual but persistent “ institutionalization of protest " whereby " [ c ] itizen ...
... result of the mass media's unquenchable penchant for novelty . McCarthy and McPhail ( 1998 , 84 ) assert that since the late 1960s there has been a gradual but persistent “ institutionalization of protest " whereby " [ c ] itizen ...
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... result in nega- tive press coverage , especially in the extreme case of Bi - level Demonization , as we saw with prestige - press coverage of Communists and Socialists in the 1940s and 1950s . Contemporarily , Mass Media Deprecation ...
... result in nega- tive press coverage , especially in the extreme case of Bi - level Demonization , as we saw with prestige - press coverage of Communists and Socialists in the 1940s and 1950s . Contemporarily , Mass Media Deprecation ...
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Action Mode activity actors agent provocateur American approach asserts Badjacketing Bi-level Demonization black bag jobs Black Panther Party Black Propaganda Bureau bystander publics Ceplair and Englund Chapter Church Committee Churchill and Vander COINTELPRO collective action Communist Communist Party Court Direct Violence dissident citizens dissident social movements Divisive Disruption Donner Doug McAdam Durham dynamic effect engage example explore FBI's frame Fred Hampton Global Global Justice Movement Hampton Harassment Arrests Hollywood Hollywood Ten Hoover HUAC individual infiltration interaction internal Intimidation journalists King leaders mass media McAdam McCarthy Mechanisms of Suppression ment mobilization Modes of Suppression Office organizations police political opportunity potential Pratt process of demobilization protesters raid relations repression Resource Depletion SCLC Seattle Senate III 1976 social mechanisms social movements social-movement Soviet specific Stigmatization story surveillance tactics Tarrow Tilly tion United Vander Wall 1990 Vander Wall 2002 Washington Post York