The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right

by Jeffrey Dudas and Jeffrey R. Dudas

The Cultivation of Resentment is one of the first book-length examinations of how grassroots conservative activists use rights discourse to pursue their political goals. It argues that conservative activists engage in frequent and sincere mobilizations of rights talk--a discourse that includes accusations that socially marginal Americans are seeking un-American, "special" rights that violate the nation's commitment to equal rights. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758093
• ISBN13: 9780804758093
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"