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- Title
BLACK SOCIAL & POLITICAL ACTIVISM: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY.
- Authors
Sullivan, Jas M.; Esmail, Ashraf
- Abstract
While prior studies have often defined social activism as protesting or marching and political activism as voting, we define social and political activism with multiple measures. For each type of activism, we create an additive index that includes various social and political activities. In this research, we ask the following question: do black information networks, political involvement of church, and nationalist identity affect social activism and political activism of blacks? Using the 1993 Black Politics Study data, the results suggest that black information networks and church's political involvement were strong predictors of both social and political activism; however, nationalist identity was not significant.
- Subjects
ACTIVISTS; POLITICAL participation; ACTIVISM; BLACK people; RACIAL identity of Black people; POLITICAL movements; SOCIAL action; SOCIAL change; RESEARCH
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1/2, p281
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article