Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing BacklashThe urgent essays in Eyes Right! show how to counter right-wing corporate, religious and political agendas, and defend democracy and diversity. With chapters covering attacks on immigrants, gay men and lesbians, people of color, environmentalists, artists, and educators, this anthology shows how disparate groups are linked by the over-arching anti-democratic objectives of the right-wing offensive. |
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Contents
Preface | 13 |
The Christian Right Seeks Dominion | 44 |
Pious Moralism | 50 |
Promise Keepers | 81 |
Civil Rights Special Rights Our Rights | 109 |
The Wise Use Movement | 135 |
Regulatory Takings Private Property Rights | 146 |
Gays | 272 |
Black Conservatives | 289 |
Strategies | 316 |
How to Fight the Right | 325 |
Civil Rights Movements Response | 333 |
Soundbites Against Homophobia | 343 |
Common Sense Security | 350 |
Uniting to Defend the Four Freedoms | 357 |
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| Title | Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash A Political Research Associates book Political Science Series |
| Authors | Matthew N. Lyons, Suzanne Pharr |
| Editors | Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons |
| Publisher | South End Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0896085236, 9780896085237 |
| Length | 398 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 20th Century Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy |
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