caa a22 4500 397524390 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19951101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097044 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097044 Lichterman Paul University of Wisconsin Piecing Together Multicultural Community: Cultural Differences in Community Building Among Grass-Roots Environmentalists [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Lichterman] This paper draws on a participant-observation study of two grass-roots environmental movements to illuminate difficulties in multicultural alliance building between activists. It focuses on different, taken-forgranted cultural patterns in the ways grass-roots movements create group bonds, and it conceptualizes these patterns as different forms of "movement community.” A "personalized” form of movement community in local U.S. Green movement groups contributed to difficulties in multicultural alliance building. These difficulties arose despite the U.S. Greens' explicit multiculturalist ideology and their validation of the "environmental justice” ideology upheld by some activists of color. The paper suggests that U.S. Greens share with other contemporary activists a way of building movement community that places cultural barriers in the path of multicultural alliances. It also suggests that the personalized form of community may be a reasonable, if problematic, response by activists like Greens to difficult cultural predicaments in multicultural alliance building. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Politics and Social Movements nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 513-534 0037-7791 42:4<513 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097044 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097044 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lichterman Paul University of Wisconsin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 513-534 0037-7791 42:4<513 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford