TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Christian TI - Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement SN - 9780226763330 AV - F1436 U1 - 303.48/2730728 PY - 1996/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- KW - Central America -- Relations -- United States KW - Peace movements -- Central America -- History KW - Peace movements -- United States -- History KW - Religion and politics -- United States -- History KW - United States -- Relations -- Central America KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part One: Setting the Context -- 1. The Sources of Central American Unrest -- 2. United States Intervention -- 3. Low-Intensity Warfare -- Part Two: The Movement Emerges -- 4. Launching the Peace Movement -- 5. Grasping the Big Picture -- 6. The Social Structure of Moral Outrage -- 7. The Individual Activists -- Part Three: Maintaining the Struggle -- 8. Negotiating Strategies and Collective Identity -- 9. Fighting Battles of Public Discourse -- 10. Facing Harassment and Repression -- 11. Problems for Protesters Closer to Home -- 12. The Movement's Demise -- Part Four: Assessing the Movement -- 13. What Did the Movement Achieve? -- 14. Lessons for Social-Movement Theory -- Appendix: The Distribution and Activities of Central America Peace Movement Organizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 208 N2 - A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns-Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance-this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=557585 ER -