SOCY655

Racial/ethnic minority movements in the US will be investigated, including protest movements by African Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Puerto Ricans. We will pay special attention to understanding these movements through the lens of social movement theory and sensitizing concepts (e.g., political process theory, framing, political opportunity structure, repression, collective identity). We will also interrogate ways that movement processes and theoretical tools may be racially invariant and strive to uncover how approaches used by scholars who study race (e.g., intersectionality, critical race theory, racialization) can be applied and perhaps challenge social movement scholarship.