A language-rights strategy can narrow a movement’s coalition and divide a community.

Evidence

“Because language became the issue, the blacks didn’t get involved and the whites didn’t get involved. And it became an issue of racism,” notes Madrid. “The whites didn’t want to get involved because what they were fighting for was Spanish translation, something they didn’t support. Having to translate for all these people who don’t speak English, who should if they want to live in our country. And simultaneously this was going on during Prop. 187. So that this heightened awareness of the issues of translation that divided the community.” — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Environmental-justice organizing often mobilizes only the directly affected ethnic group — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 404; Ideological proximity could hinder rather than help coalition formation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1244; Guaranteeing space for diverse identities can unite rather than fragment a movement.

Broader Connections

• Guaranteeing space for diverse identities can unite rather than fragment a movement. #contradicts (0.80)
• Ideological proximity could hinder rather than help coalition formation #qualifies (0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1244