“Protests works—just not, perhaps the way you think,” writes L.A. Kauffman in her new book How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance. A longtime organizer and movement journalist, …
By Roderick A. Ferguson, author of We Demand: The University and Student Protests This guest post is part of a blog series of contributions by authors in American Studies Now, an e-book first series of …
by Ahmed White, author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America Several weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, millions of Americans …
Marching on Washington has returned to the center stage of national politics with The Women’s March on Washington in protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. In their official policy platform, the march …
By Roderick A. Ferguson, author of We Demand: The University and Student Protests This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver. Check …
As World Cup fervor gains intensity heading into the quarterfinals, we turn to the experts—namely Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil—for some background …