Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States.

Hank Johnston is Professor of Sociology and Hansen Chair of Peace and Nonviolence Studies at San Diego State University, USA. His recent books include Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State, What is a Social Movement?, and States and Social Movements.

Pamela Oliver was the Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and is now Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an internationally recognized scholar of social movements and protest, and author of numerous research articles in sociology's leading journals.

1 Pacification and resistance in racialized states: a comparative view; 2 Defensive adaptations: NAACP responses to the U.S. post-racial project 1970-1990; 3 Resisting repression: The Black Lives movement in context; 4 Racist policing, practical resonance, and frame alignment in Ferguson; 5 Active abeyance, political opportunity, and the "new" white supremacy; 6 The biographical consequences of repression: Arab Americans in post-9/11 America; 7 Localized political contexts: undocumented youth mobilization during hostile times; 8 Gaining a voice: storytelling and undocumented youth activism in Chicago; 9 Racial, ethnic, and immigration protest during year one of the Trump presidency