Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Degree Granting Department
Anthropology
Major Professor
Antoinette Jackson, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Cheryl Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Daniel Lende, Ph.D.
Keywords
Capitalism, Discrimination, Criminal Justice, Intersectionality, Police Brutality, Public Policy
Abstract
Racial justice activists in Tampa Bay comprise a community and culture structured as a movement of social transformation. Data from eleven interviews and more than 100 hours of participant observation show that activists consist of a diverse array of Tampa Bay residents of varying ages, genders, sexualities, racial/ethnic identities and livelihoods. This community is best described by their beliefs and practices of ideology steeped in intersectionality and anti-capitalism, and are motivated by or empathetic to racial injustices directly experienced by them or those around them. The intention of this paper is to describe activists as they are rather than as they are depicted in the popular imagination, as well as to share the insights of racial justice activists to the public for their own use in resisting injustices.
Scholar Commons Citation
Weisenberger, Emily Janna, "A Culture of Resistance: An Ethnography of Tampa Bay’s Racial Justice Activist Community" (2018). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7592
