The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy 0691201722, 9780691201726

How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior The "silent majority&

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The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
0691201722, 9780691201726

Combining historical accounts, statistical analysis, detailed interviews, and a close case study of the Black Lives Matt

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Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political d

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America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something

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This book presents the authors many and varied contributions to the revival and re-evaluation of American pragmatism. Th

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Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism Following the high-profile deaths of

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The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who’s somehow defect

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A renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them

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A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years

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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thri

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"Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfy

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