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According to Sarah Jackson, the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s made strategic decisions to center educated, cisgender Black men in racial justice struggles, calculating that they would be most likely to be seen as worthy of rights. Jackson identifies this strategy as a form of_____.
A) acceptability calculation
B) Black masculinist thought
C) patriarchal pandering
D) respectability politics
Civil Rights Movements
Collective efforts aimed at achieving equal rights and social justice for marginalized groups, historically significant in challenging racial segregation and discrimination.
Respectability Politics
The attempts by marginalized groups to police their own members and show their social values as being continuous and compatible with mainstream values rather than challenging the status quo.
- Acknowledge the formation of race as a societal construct and its impact on modern movements.
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- Acknowledge the formation of race as a societal construct and its impact on modern movements.
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