Jules Boykoff - The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements

NEW APPROACHES IN SOCIOLOGY

STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Nancy A. Naples

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NEW APPROACHES IN SOCIOLOGY

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THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT

How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements

Jules Boykoff

THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT

How the State and Mass Media Squelch

USAmerican Social Movements

Jules Boykoff

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About the Author

Jules Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. His research and writing appears in scholarly journals such as Global Environmental Change, New Political Science, and Socialist Studies, and popular publications like Extra!, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and NACLA: Report on the Americas.

During the process of writing this book I have been very fortunate in many ways. I have received generous feedback from many scholars, colleagues, and friends, who, collectively, have been a phenomenal force of constructive criticism and positive encouragement. Peter Kuznick is a paragon of integrity with a keen editorial eye and a remarkable patience. I will always appreciate the long (and for me, formative) conversations we had in his office at American University in Washington, DC. Joe Soss helped me immeasurably during every stage of this project. His enthusiasm to engage in intellectual inquiry and his willingness to work intensely at a distance (from the University of Wisconsin) not only aided the writing of this book, but also buoyed my hopes for what intellectual collaboration can be. His mind is an extraordinary catalog of knowledge that spans widely across the disciplinesfrom political science to artand Joe generously shares that knowledge, which has opened many doors of thought for me along the way. William LeoGrande has also been a tremendous, positive force in the making of this book. Many years ago my friend Stephen Kelly Ainsworth gave me William LeoGrandes telephone-book-rivaling tome Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 19771992. I read it with both awe and a deep appreciation for its critical historical edge. After reading it, I had the good fortune of working closely with Bill for many years. I will always value his honesty, generosity, intensity, and fantastic sense of humor. I am fortunate to have him as a colleague and friend.

A special thanks goes to Maxwell Boykoff, my brother, who was with me every step of the way in the process of writing this book. Max was, and is, a valuable source of advice, a paragon of patience, and a generous, optimistic collaborator. I appreciate how he always made time to support me when I needed it. Thanks also to Michael Schmidt who helped immensely with the genesis, evolution, and completion of this project. I have also benefited greatly from the ideas and critiques of many other people at various stages of this project. Thank you to Ruth Lane, Sahar Shafqat, Kristen Sheeran, Robin Hahnel, Father Paul Surlis, Jeff Seward, Bob Van Dyk, Diane Singerman, Ryan Scott King, Xiaodong Zhang, Erin OBrien, Dave Kaib, Mvuselelo Ngcoya, Suzanne Piotrowski, Paige Harrison, Michael K. Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg, Celia Rabinowitz, Charlie Benjamin, Ramtin Arablouei, Padma Soundararajan, Christopher Neu, Jesse Kayan, Kathryn Bozarth, Carolyn Forche, Harry Mattison, and Alan Graves for generously working through many of the ideas that ended up (or didnt!) in this book. Thanks also to Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian for their titular assistance.

I would also like to thank my editor at Routledge, Ben Holtzman, for his honesty, reliability, and good cheer. Additionally, Nancy Naples, the editor of the New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice series, offered insightful, beneficial feedback during the review process.