...John D. Stark W. E. B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership . By Rudwick Elliott M. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1960 . Pp. 382 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly Democratic newspapers...

...William G. Carleton Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE GROUP PROCESS William G. Carleton THE POLITICAL SCIENCE taught in the schools today is a far cry from that taught a generation ago. Probably the concept most responsible for the change is the group...

...C. Anne Ward Amacher The Fugitive Group: A Literary History . By Cowan Louise . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . Pp. xxiii , 277 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 581 always interesting, boldly venturesome rather than...

... academic year. The essay explores the conflict between various multiethnic political groups attempting to lay claim to the radical legacy of 1960s-era Bay Area ethnic movements and address the catastrophic impact of the state budget cuts on underrepresented communities of color. The essay goes on to reveal...

...Lynn Marie Houston The U.S. meat industry's tarnished reputation after the mad cow disease crisis has driven some ranchers to a breaking point, in which they blame food safety issues on illegal immigrants. This essay investigates the activities of a group called Ranch Rescue, whose members “round...

...Stuart Davis Drawing on the case of O Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement), or MBL, this article interrogates key assumptions about the nature of networked digital activism. The MBL, formed in the early 2010s by a Koch‐funded network of libertarian student groups, utilized...

...Maria Chehonadskih In Russia, it appears that the media and the protesters represent the generalized view about the anti-Putin movement as a group resisting an oppressive regime. It’s difficult to say what came first—the ideological constriction of the official and liberal media opposing...

...João Gabriell Why does a given oppressed group sometimes revolt and take to the streets, while other times it does not? This is a question that is never easy to answer. It requires a detailed examination of its history in a given context (here, France), the conditions and means for self...

...Ferruccio Gambino This reminiscence intends to sketch out the political and intellectual atmosphere in which a minor episode took place within a wide redefinition of political activity: how a tiny but diverse group of young radicals came to read W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the second...

.... The neglect of inter‐subaltern interactions within the framework of methodological dualism has rendered it incapable of explaining the agential entanglement of “inter‐subaltern colonialism” and gender in the non‐Western nation‐building process and its subsequent impact on the affected groups. Addressing...

... that is to this very day contested by scholars who prefer to see the Palestinian community as a national group engaged with other Palestinian groups in a national liberation struggle. The article focuses on various projects and highlights in particular projects that reconstruct pre-1948 Palestine as means both...

... of native peoples as both “special interest groups” and “racial minorities” is deployed in the service of undermining the unique legal status of indigenous peoples under both U.S. federal law and international law. This changing political terrain creates the need for multiple interventions on different...

... of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005), and contemporary antisovereignty groups organizing against American Indian self-determination. Antisovereignty activists contend that U.S. federal Indian law confers “special rights” based on race to tribes and that tribal sovereignty not only deprives...

... by the transition from merit to market models affect a considerable range of people, not only faculty, but also students and the general public, whose support is crucial to higher education. I argue that the economic costs of sustaining an academic freedom market are enormous, a burden borne primarily by groups...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society—a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957–61)—and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism...

...Kenneth Surin The paper begins by examining the conditions that allowed theory to emerge and flourish in the American academy. It then proposes a typology for grouping together and analyzing the papers given at the March 2010 “Theory Now,” from which many of the essays in this issue originated...

... redistribution platform. If neoliberal forces of privatization, financialization, and deregulation have dispossessed people of crucial resources, places, rights, and other forms of social wealth, then occupation should be understood as an act of repossession, in which persons or groups take back what...

...Emma Dowling; Anna Feigenbaum; Susan Pell; Katherine Stanley This essay brings together the authors’ experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London...

... the Japanese state has been, at best, disinterested and, at worst, complicit in this occupation, there is a long history of Okinawan resistance. Most recently, a dynamic and complex network of groups and individuals has come together to contest plans by the Japanese and US authorities to relocate a Marine...

...William David Hart This essay explores an emergent black atheist, secular humanist, and naturalistic imagination. Based on a 2007 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that measured the percentage of African Americans holding such views, I refer to this group as “one percenters...