Clio's Foot Soldiers: Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory

by Lara Leigh Kelland

Collective memories are key to social movements. Activists draw on a shared history to build identity, create movement cohesion, and focus political purpose. But what happens when marginalized communities do not find their history in dominant narratives? How do they create a useable past to bind their political communities together and challenge their exclusion?

In Clio's Foot Soldiers, Lara Leigh Kelland investigates these questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343434
• ISBN13: 9781625343437
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher