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We’ve Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements

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Social movement scholarship has historically focused on both relative deprivation and resource mobilization
theories. In recent years, the field has shifted attention to concentrate on “framing.” Despite this move,
less attention has been paid to both racialized scripts of microlevel interaction and the processes of
identity formation that constitute the nuance of everyday lived experiences of collective action. Drawing
from comparative ethnographic studies with a white nationalist organization and a white antiracist
organization, I demonstrate how a conventional frame analysis—in which both movements construct
a problem and assign blame, propose a prognostic strategy and tactic, and offer a rationale for action—
would leave us with a bifurcated picture of two distinct and antagonistic movements and actors that
share little in common. By shifting attention to interactional scripts and identity formation, we are better
positioned to specify the empirical mechanisms by which collective action occurs; clarify the operation of
racism (rather than simply describe its effects); avoid reification of frames; circumvent the reduction of
structural dynamics to cognitive dilemmas, and accurately depict the intersubjectively shared scenarios,
dramaturgical rules, and collective processes of group boundary making that constitute the everyday
experience of movement actors. Importantly, we can then reveal patterned similarities between two
groups that framing analysis would depict as incommensurate and antagonistic but that together ultimately
rationalize and legitimate the reproduction of white supremacy regardless of resource attainment, political
ideology, or frame alignment.

Keywords: identity, interaction, racism, social movement, whiteness

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Judul Seri

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

New York : American Sociological Association., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2015, Vol. 1(1) 137– 152

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English

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DOI: 10.1177/2332649

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Edisi

2015, Vol. 1(1)

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SOSIOLOGI

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