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How elites ate the social justice movement / Fredrik deBoer.

by deBoer, Fredrik, author.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Social movements -- United States.

Social justice -- United States.

Elite (Social sciences) -- United States.

United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

9781668016015 (hardcover) :

vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Introduction -- Whatever Happened to 2020? -- BPMCLM: Black Lives Matter and the inevitability of elite capture -- My Protest, Your Riot -- The Nonprofit Industrial Complex -- #MemeToo -- Meet the Goodies: Why Are Liberals the Way They Are? -- Why is Class First? -- To Fight for Everyone.

"An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future. In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political discontent the likes of which had not been seen since the 1960s. The spark was the viral video of the horrific police murder of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis. The killing of George Floyd galvanized a nation already reeling from Covid and a toxic political cycle. Tens of thousands poured into the streets to protest. Major corporations and large nonprofit groups-institutions that are usually resolutely apolitical-raced to join in. The fervor for racial justice intersected with the already simmering demands for change from the #MeToo movement and for economic justice from Gen Z. The entire country suddenly seemed to be roaring for change in one voice. Then nothing much happened. In How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement, Fredrik deBoer explores why these passionate movements failed and how they could succeed in the future. In the digital age, social movements flare up but then lose steam through a lack of tangible goals, the inherent moderating effects of our established institutions and political parties, and the lack of any real grassroots movement in contemporary America. Hidden beneath the rhetoric of the oppressed and the symbolism of the downtrodden lies the inconvenient fact that those doing the organizing, messaging, protesting, and campaigning are predominantly drawn from this country's more upwardly mobile educated classes. Poses are more important than policies. DeBoer lays out an alternative vision for how society's winners can contribute to social justice movements without taking them over, and how activists and their organizations can become more resistant to the influence of elites, nonprofits, corporations, and political parties. Only by organizing around class rather than empty gestures can we begin the hard work of changing minds and driving policy"--Provided by publisher.

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