On the Freedom Side
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American democracy
Author_Wesley C. Hogan
Bill of Rights
Black Lives Matter
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civil disobedience
community organizing
Corporate plutocracy
democratic governance
Dream Defenders
Ella Baker
Environmental justice
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IIYC
immigrant rights
law enforcement accountability
Local democracy
M4BL
nonviolence
nonviolent direct action
people power
SNCC
social media in social movements
social movements
SONG
Southerners on New Ground
Standing Rock
The Dreamers
the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
The International Indigenous Youth Council
the Movement for Black Lives
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Threats to democracy
TigerSwan
United We Dream
Youth activism in the 21st century
Youth voices in politics
Youth voices in public policy
Product details
- ISBN 9781469652474
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival. That reality forms the backbone of this book, as Hogan documents and assesses young people's interventions in the American fight for democracy and its ideals.
Beginning with reflections on the inspiring example of Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Hogan profiles youth-led organizations and their recent work. Examples include Southerners on New Ground (SONG) in the NAFTA era; Oakland's Ella Baker Center and its fight against the school-to-prison pipeline; the Dreamers who are fighting for immigration reform; the Movement for Black Lives that is demanding a reinvestment in youth of color and an end to police violence against people of color; and the International Indigenous Youth Council, water protectors at Standing Rock who fought to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands. As Hogan reveals, the legacy of Ella Baker and the civil rights movement has often been carried forward by young people at the margins of power and wealth in U.S. society. This book foregrounds their voices and gathers their inventions--not in a comprehensive survey, but as an activist mix tape--with lively, fresh perspectives on the promise of twenty-first-century U.S. democracy.
Beginning with reflections on the inspiring example of Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Hogan profiles youth-led organizations and their recent work. Examples include Southerners on New Ground (SONG) in the NAFTA era; Oakland's Ella Baker Center and its fight against the school-to-prison pipeline; the Dreamers who are fighting for immigration reform; the Movement for Black Lives that is demanding a reinvestment in youth of color and an end to police violence against people of color; and the International Indigenous Youth Council, water protectors at Standing Rock who fought to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands. As Hogan reveals, the legacy of Ella Baker and the civil rights movement has often been carried forward by young people at the margins of power and wealth in U.S. society. This book foregrounds their voices and gathers their inventions--not in a comprehensive survey, but as an activist mix tape--with lively, fresh perspectives on the promise of twenty-first-century U.S. democracy.
Wesley C. Hogan is the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and author of Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America.
