Race and Gender Discourse Strategies: Creating Solidarity and Framing the Civil Rights Movement

Autor:	Michael R. Fraser, Gerald M. Platt
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Framing (social sciences) Sociology and Political Science Civil rights Discourse analysis Political strategy Gender studies Sociology Social constructionism Solidarity Sociolinguistics Social movement
Zdroj:	Social Problems. 45:160-179
ISSN:	1533-8533 0037-7791
DOI:	10.2307/3097242
Popis:	Using a sociolinguistic analysis of correspondence, this essay examines letters sent to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by supporters and participants in the Civil Rights movement. In the letters, writers employ discourse strategies to construct their experiences of the movement and formulate themselves as supporters and participants. They also formulate their solidarity and framings of the movement. Correspondents' race, gender, and circumstances influence the ways they create solidarity with, and frame the movement. These findings indicate that Civil Rights movement supporters and participants held both private and shared conceptions of the movement. The implications of these findings for movement theory are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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