Gender, race, and political violence in U.S. social movements: 1965--1975

This study grounds key theoretical points about domination and resistance, social identity, and political violence in the Black Power, Feminist, and Anti-War movements in the United States during the period of 1965--1975. The political organizations included in this study are the Black Panther Party, the Weathermen, and several radical feminist organizations. Debates over the meaning and ordering of race and gender identities and relations occurred within these political organizations and the social movements they helped form, as well across social movements. The use. of violence as a means of resistance emerged as one of several points in these debates. This study explores how violent resistance served as a site for the construction, of race and gender identities.;Scholarly literature on the political activism of the Sixties does not explore how political violence was inserted into debates about the meaning and ordering of race and gender identities and relations within the social movements of the period. Thus, an important contribution of this study is to illuminate how violence served as a site for the construction of race and gender identities and relations within the social movements of the Sixties.