Mobilizing public opinion
Subtitle: Black insurgency and racial attitudes in the civil rights era
By: Taeku Lee.
Series: Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Racism -- United States -- Public opinion.; African Americans -- Attitudes.; Whites -- United States -- Attitudes.; Public opinion -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Tables and Figures vii; title: INTRODUCTION 1 ONE Elite Opinion Theory and Activated Mass Opinion 17; title: TWO Black Insurgency and the Dynamics of Mass Opinion 43; title: THREE The Sovereign Status of Survey Data 71; title: FOUR Constituency Mail as Public Opinion 91; title: FIVE The Racial, Regional, and Organizational Bases of Mass Activation I20; title: SIX Contested Meanings and Movement Agency I50; title: SEVEN Two Nations, Separate Grooves I86 APPENDIX ONE Question Wording, Scales,; title: and Coding of Variables in Survey Analysis 211; title: APPENDIX TWO Bibliographic Sources for; title: Racial Attitude Items, 1937-1965 213; title: APPENDIX THREE Sampling and Coding of; title: Constituency Mail 215; title: APPENDIX FOUR Typology of Interpretive Frames 218; title: Notes 221; title: References 253; title: Acknowledgments 283; title: Index 285.