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The Color in Miami: Building Grassroots Leadership of Color in the U.S. Global Justice Movement1Department of Geography, University of Southern California, C3620 Vermont Avenue, KAP-416, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0255, USA, mpastor{at}usc.edu
Environmental Health Coalition, National City, CA, USA, TonyL{at}environmentalhealth.org Much of the global justice movement (GJM) constituency is white, middle-class, and college-educated, seeming to suggest a failure to engage low-income communities of color most negatively affected by globalization in the U.S. Drawing on recent innovations in social movement theory and a unique empirical base of interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with emerging grassroots leadership, we examine the constraints faced by community-based organizations (CBOs) in these communities and outline recent successful efforts to integrate a global perspective into their mission and vision. We suggest that these efforts can lead to a complementary partnership between NGOs, organized labor, and CBOs that will further empower the GJM in the U.S.
Key Words: global justice • low-income • communities of color • social movement theory • community-based organizations • NGOs • organized labor • global perspective • globalization • civil society
Critical Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 5-6,
795-831 (2007) |
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