Rights, resentment, and social change -- Mobilizing nationhood : the treaty-rights movement and the roots of resentment -- The countersubversive persuasion : special-rights talk and the anti-treaty-rights movement -- "This is not equal rights" : U.S. v. Washington and the origins of the anti-treaty-rights movement -- We don't believe in the promised land : exploring the anti-tribal-casino movement -- The cultivation of resentment : rights in the theater of culture war
Summary
This is an examination of how grassroots conservative activists use rights discourse to pursue their political goals. It argues that conservative activists engage in frequent and sincere mobilizations of rights talk - a discourse that includes accusations that socially marginal Americans are seeking un-American, 'special' rights that violate the nation's commitment to equal rights. The book finds that such rights talk is central both to the identities of conservative activists and to the broad appeal of modern New Right politics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-191) and index
