Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights
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Andersen, Danielle
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This thesis examines the experience of personal breakdown in the American Civil Rights Movement. It proposes that breakdown was triggered in individuals by the practice of nonviolence and contends that breakdown precipitated the Movement's shift away from nonviolence toward the more self-protective tactic of black power.
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2012 01 01 T08:00:00 Z