... and community activism in the twenty-first-century United States? The remainder of the chapter offers a glimpse into the authors’ arguments, explaining in brief how religious leaders effectively mobilized their congregations in 2012, what factors may be dissuading them from the Black Lives Matter movement...

... of the crisis—a vulnerable time of uncertainty, increasing death tolls, and community activism in response—state authorities explicitly dehumanized, infantilized, and abandoned gay men, creating a narrative of blame for supposedly undignified behavior. State authorities issued an ultimatum to queer men...

... High Denver low income communities neoliberal education reform urban renewal non institutionalized activism privilege school choice White liberal progressive reformers Community Education Collective CEC Democrats for Educational Justice DEJ Fenty Adrian Rhee Michelle Waiting for Superman...

... neighborhood schools Denver Public Schools system DPS system Latinx communities Ridgeview High School Denver charter schools Denver Colorado McDonwell Elementary School Denver dual language Montessori model standardized testing Chicano activism Cucchiara Maia Horvat Erin Kimelberg Shelley...

..., creating alternatives to state-based categories of membership, and building communities of practice. Through transnational work, sanctuary activism can counter the histories of exclusion that underlie racialized divisions between citizens and noncitizens. asylum Central Americans Coutin Susan Deferred...

... Awartani Sara Chicago Police Department CPD Cortes Edwin Greiman Alan Hillel Molina Alejandro Organization of Arab Students OAS Palestinians protests Puerto Ricans Rover Ilana Smith Albert Students for Israel surveillance Third World activism Union for Puerto Rican Students UPRS United...

... activism New York City queer LGBTQ Puerto Ricans intralatinas/os politics sex work or prostitution The civil rights activist Sylvia Rivera is one of the most important global transgender Latinx figures, with streets and organizations such as the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) in New York City...

... the narratives of Latinx LDS millennials, this chapter accounts for the way this next generation of bilingual members merged religious doctrine with digital activism to address immigration politics in the twenty-first century. Looking at digital activism and individual interviews, this analysis includes how...

..., they are changing physically located Black churches, modes of church activism, communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and the transmission and consumption of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. In short, they are rewiring The System. Henry Glen Beleaf Melanin Hill Lauryn...

... and demonstrate contemporary parallels with ethnic Latina/o LDS experiences. activism Arizona comadrazgo networks of community activism Mormons and Gallegos Alfredo Gálvez Alyshia immigrants immigration immigration politics Latino history Latino religious history LDS Church Mormon Church women...

...This chapter reviews the history of Las Hermanas since their inception in 1971 as a national organization of Chicana and Latina religious women who mobilized to confront the disregard for Latina/o Catholics in the US Catholic Church. Their activism evolved into a direct challenge to the racism...

...Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s thinking about spiritual activism, this chapter presents four cases of self-care as well as public practices that help communities heal from historical trauma. It argues that the work of self-care and spiritual activism in communities of color contests the individualism...

...This chapter maps key milestones in LGBT Orthodoxy’s journey from reviled, maligned, and marginalized to normalized, placing it in the broader context of LGBTQ+ activism in Israel. The chapter describes a dizzying array of initiatives that sprung from a modest beginning of anonymous, online spaces...

... EEF International Foundation for Gender Education IFGE “Rising of the Moons ” Tri Ess Xerox machine isolation Cross Talk hotline FidoNet servers “stealth ” “woodworking ” Gateway Gender Alliance GGA political organizing activism BBSes and TransgenderNet TGNet Aryan Liberty Net white...

... Activism Consumer Activism Few items are more emblematic of a specific moment in Web history than the free America Online (AOL) trial CD. For those over a certain age in the mid-1990s, these discs were ubiquitous, offered with everything from breakfast cereal and Blockbuster videocassettes to Omaha...

... that followed World War I and the Paris Peace Conference, Jewish and Irish diaspora nationalists continued to object to the formation of Mandatory Palestine and the Irish Free State. This chapter explores the Irish and Jewish activism inspired by contemporary rhetoric about the rights of small nations...

... in the unique policy environment supported by community-based advocacy and activism in New York City. The successes, as well as shortcomings, described in this book suggest key implications for those concerned with protecting the rights of immigrants. advocates Democrats Republicans sanctuary cities...

... of religious ideas and symbols to inspire and sustain activism, (2) bridging institutions that provide social capital to vulnerable immigrants, and (3) spiritual capital that builds community cultural wealth in immigrant communities. The primary constraints that come from faith-based organizing include (1...

... Political Network for Values PNV European Court of Human Rights ECtHR human rights diffusion Russian Ukraine invasion rival transnational advocacy networks world politics transnational moral conservative movement movement claims and strategies LGBTI rights SOGI rights Anti-gender activism Holding...

... networks world politics transnational moral conservative movement movement claims and strategies Culture WarsChristian Right Religion Anti-gender activism In March 2000, moral conservative activists infiltrated a meeting of the United Nations Preparatory Committee for the UN Special General Assembly...