Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire

by Sean Chabot

Book Overview

This book explores collective learning in the Gandhian repertoire's transnational diffusion from the Indian independence movement to the American civil rights movement. Instead of focusing primarily on interpersonal linkages or causal mechanisms, it highlights how decades of translation and experimentation by various actors enabled full implementation. It also shows that transnational diffusion was not a linear and predictable process, but underwent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739186019
• ISBN13: 9780739186015
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher