Black Protesters in a White Social Movement: Looking to the Anti–Iraq War Movement to Develop a Theory of Racialized Activism

On the basis of ethnographic and historical accounts, many movement scholars hold that differences in political expectations interaction styles inhibit cross-racial collaboration social movements. Inspired by this research, authors ask three questions about minority participation movements address them using a survey more than 6,000 participants anti–Iraq War movement. First, relational inequality. Did Black protesters have fewer ties with antiwar Whites? Second, siloing. Were disproportionately concentrated specific organizations? Third, if patterns inequality were similar for Latino Asian activists? The find evidence activists but not or activists. They siloing all ethnic groups. These empirical results are used to articulate an account racialized activism special attention organizational processes.