social movements

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/25/2021
  

  Fight To Vote: The Woman Who Was Key In 'Getting Us The Voting Rights Act'

  Historian Carol Anderson explains the contributions of Amelia Boynton to the Selma movement and the erasure of women's organizing work from many histories of the movement. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/13/2020
  

  A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis

  "There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/25/2020
  

  The Case to End the Supreme Court as We Know It

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The Supreme Court has historically supported democratic and egalitarian change only when forced by social movements. People must stop looking to the power invested in the court and start looking for the power latent in themselves. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/24/2020
  

  The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade

  Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/27/2020
  

  Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on how Today’s Abolitionist Movement can Fundamentally Change the Country

  "Part of defunding the police is a recognition that the police, as constituted, make life more dangerous for vulnerable populations even as it creates a sense of false safety for white people."

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Where Was Such Solidarity Two Weeks Ago?

  by Frederick Gooding, Jr.

  The author is skeptical of the sudden wave of "performative solidarity" by white individuals and corporate America. Ensuring that Black Lives matter will require solidarity in the long term.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/12/2020
  

  A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/9/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The prominence of black women in today's protests is not a sudden development. In taking to the streets in support of their goals, they are building upon a rich tradition of black women’s organizing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  A ‘Good’ Protester is Just a ‘Bad’ Protester in the Misty Rearview Mirror

  by David S. Meyer

  The comparison drawn between "good" and "bad" forms of protest usually draws on oversimplified historical comparisons and is often intended to justify ignoring the substantive problems animating protests. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/8/2020
  

  19 Facts About the 19th Amendment on its 100th Anniversary

  The suffrage movement that led to the 19th Amendment was intertwined with many other social reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the broad demands of egalitarian reforms activists wanted remain unfulfilled. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  6/4/2020
  

  Organizing the Rich or the Poor?

  by Liz Theoharis

  Instead of looking to national leaders or the rich, a 1968 incident should remind us to recognize the need to organize the political power of the poor for self-determination.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/24/2020
  

  The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords' Revolution

  by Ed Morales

  In her new book historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords' influence as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/7/19
  

  America’s Original Identity Politics

  by Sarah Churchwell

  The good news for anyone feeling perturbed is that it simply isn’t true that identity politics represents the end of America or of liberal democracy.