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Show Discourse in Action: The Mobilization of the Million Man March Richard A. Vazquez about dealing with the public transcript and hidden transcript. Some may say that the evidence was "stretched" in this study, and that no real dominant anti-Black ideology exists in America. While it is not possible to poll every Black man in America, or every Black in attendance at the MMM for that matter, the evidence used in this paper suggests that the existence of a hegemonic ideology is at least perceived by a sample of men at the MMM (a perception not unfounded, given statistics and examples cited earlier), and that they regarded the march as a form of resistance against that ideology. Once this was established, we were able to label the MMM as a form of open resistance in the public transcript and look for events in the hidden transcript that contributed to this resistance. The study as a whole shows that Scott's theory is indeed broad enough to be applied to cases such as the MMM where the lines of power and resistance are not clearly drawn. References Bedau, Hugo Adam. 1992. "The Case against the Death Penalty." Revised July, <http://www.dnai.com/~mwood/deathpen.html> (November 17, 1997). Bierbauer, Charles. 1995. "Million Man Messenger, Not Message, Causing Division." October 15. <http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/ megamarch/10-15/index.html> (November 14, 1997). Chong, Dennis. 1991. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. "The Contract with America." 1995. The Ethical Spectacle. 1(2), February 1995. <http://www.spectacle.org/295/contract.html> (November 17, 1997). Cottman, Michael H. 1995. Million Man March. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks. Farrakhan, Louis. 1995. "In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." <http://www.noi.org/FCN/MLFspeaks/whymarch.html> (November 14, 1997). Fernandez, Cristina D. 1996. "Unmasking Hopwood." Hispanic. November. <http://www.hisp.com/nov96/hopwood.html> (November 16, 1997). Fletcher, Michael A. and Hamil R. Harris. 1995. "Black Men Jam Mall for a Day of Atonement." Washingtonpost.com. October 17. <wp4.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/man-march/ledall.htm> (November 16, 1997). Get on the Bus. 1996. Dir. Spike Lee, with Charles Dutton. Columbia Pictures. Kirk, Joshua. 1997. "A Leader Emerges in the Affirmative Action Debate." Res Publica. 7(1), Summer, <http://www.ashland.edu/ ashbrook/publicat/respub/v7nl/kirk.html> (August 20, 1998). Maraniss, David. 1995. "Finding New Fellowship and Brotherhood on the Road to Washington." Washingtonpost.com. October 16. <http://wp4.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/man-march/bus.htm> (November 16, 1997). Martin, Sara. 1995. "Practitioners May Misunderstand Black Families." APA Monitor. October, <http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct95/ strength.html> (November 14, 1997). Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Morris, Lorenzo, et al. 1995. Million Man March Survey Report. October 16. <http://www.cldc.howard.edu/~blkpol/mmmrep.html> (November 17, 1997). Padilla, Maria T.- 1997. "Million Man March's Legacy." Orlando Sentinel, October 15. <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ 1015marc.htm> (November 14, 1997). Public Enemy. 1990. Fear of a Black Planet. CBS Records, CT45413. Roser, Mary Ann. 1998. "A Storm over Racial Comments." Austin American'Statesman. <http://www.austin360.com/news/features/ graglia/graglial2.htm> (August 20, 1998). Scott, James C. 1990. Domination and the Arts of Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. Sheppard, Barry. "Letter from the US." Green Left Weekly Home Page. No Date, <http://www.pec.apc.org/~stan/232/232pl8.htm> (November 14, 1997). Simon, Amy. 1995. "Groups Will Meet to Inform Others about Contract." Daily Collegian. March 28. <http://www.spub.ksu.edu/ issues/v009b/sp/nl24/news-protest-simon.html> (November 14, 1997). Walker, Steven L. 1995. "Why I Attended the Million Man March." Glaad Online. December, <http://www.glaad.org/glaad/news/9512/ million-man.html> (November 17, 1997). 74 |