Climate change, teachers’ strikes, gun violence, and more – all on
the heels of #MeToo, Standing Rock, #BlackLivesMatter, and Occupy Wall
Street... Historian Dawson Barrett connects these PROTEST WAVES,
examines how we got here, and considers where we may be headed.
Barrett argues that protest is an American tradition and that "the
world around us is a legacy of struggles won and lost and routinely
fought again."
Barrett's The Defiant (New York University Press, 2018) has been
described as “an important book for our times,” an
“inspirational call to action,” and “an indispensable manual
for…the rebels and resisters, the dissidents and the disobedient.”
Dr. Dawson Barrett is Associate Professor of US History at Del Mar
College and the author of Teenage Rebels: Successful High School
Activists from the Little Rock Nine to the Class of Tomorrow and The
Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America. His writings have
appeared in a variety of academic and popular publications, including
Teen Vogue.
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