Conflicted Commitments: Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism

by Gada Mahrouse and Gada Mahrouse

Conflicted Commitments analyzes a form of non-violent, direct transnational solidarity in which activists from the global North travel to support and protect people in the global South. Gada Mahrouse contends that this brand of activism is a compelling site of racialized power relations and is highly instructive for a nuanced understanding of systems of race. Mahrouse argues that the individuals who partake in this form of activism consciously deploy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773543643
• ISBN13: 9780773543645
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.8"