CNX 158: Social Activism: Preparing for Effective Dialogue
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Topic Overview
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"Say you want a revolution; We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet and out on the street
Singing power to the people, power to the people, power to the people, power to the people, right on"
- John Lennon ("Power to the People")
"It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come
Oh, yes it will"
- Sam Cooke ("A Change Is Gonna Come")
Selected Ebooks
The Activist's Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780520956995Publication Date: 2013also available in print at HN 65 .S48 2013
Activists' Handbook: a step-by-step guide to participatory democracy. by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781848135949Publication Date: 2012
American Resistance: from the Women's March to the blue wave by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780231547390Publication Date: 2019also available in print at E 912 .F49 2019
Civic activism unleashed : new hope or false dawn for democracy? by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780190931704Publication Date: 2019also available in print at HM 881 .Y68 2019
After the Rebellion: black youth, social movement activism, and the post-civil rights generation by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780814789384Publication Date: 2014also available in print at E 185.615 .F723 2014
Hands up, don't shoot : why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781479818563Publication Date: 2019also available in print at HV 8141 .C56 2019
Food for Change: the politics and values of social movements by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0745334482Publication Date: 2014also available in print at HD 9000.5 .P738 2014
Pushing Back: women-of-color-led grassroots activism in New York City by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780820356136Publication Date: 2020
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780691158570Publication Date: 2013Also available in print at HD 8031 .A45 2013
This Is Our Land: grassroots environmentalism in the late twentieth century by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813565644Publication Date: 2015also available in print at Sci Lib GE 197 .F47 2015
Poll Power: the Voter Education Project and the movement for the ballot in the American South by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781469651316Publication Date: 2019also available in print at JK 2160 .F38 2019
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780820349152Publication Date: 2016also available in print at E 185.61 .C5916 2016
The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780511679254Publication Date: 2010also available in print at E 185.61 .L82 2010
Women's activism, feminism, and social justice by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780190947736Publication Date: 2019
The gay marriage generation : how the LGBTQ movement transformed American culture by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781479823949Publication Date: 2018
Remaking Radicalism: a grassroots documentary reader of the United States, 1973-2001 by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780820357270Publication Date: 2020
Selected Print Books
On the Freedom Side: how five decades of youth activists have remixed American history by Call Number: HQ 799.2.P6 H645 2019ISBN: 9781469652474Publication Date: 2019
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Call Number: Browsing LB 3013.33.F6 C85 2019ISBN: 9780062882943Publication Date: 2019
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance by Call Number: E 99.D1 E87 2019ISBN: 9781786636720Publication Date: 2019
Protest!: a history of social and political protest graphics by Call Number: N 72.P6 M37 2019ISBN: 9780691198330Publication Date: 2019An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art.
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