The Grassroots Politics Syllabus
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Public Seminar has been on hiatus for a month: below, we present our final winter syllabus of articles grouped around a theme that we thought might interest you—and your students. Join us next week for the first new issue of 2021.
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Deva Woodly, “An American Reckoning: The fire this time.” (June 4, 2020)
Howard Rheingold, “Democracy is Losing the Online Arms Race: How media monopolies have damaged the public sphere – and what we can do about it.” (February 18, 2020)
Deanne Stillman, “Is America Going Down Like Custer? When defiance is the coin of the realm.” (September 24, 2020)
Ann Larson, “Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt: Towards a Genuine Collaboration.” (April 22, 2020)
James Miller, “Could Populism Actually Be Good for Democracy? A wave of populist revolts has led many to lose faith in the wisdom of people power. But such eruptions are essential to the vitality of modern politics.” (February 25, 2020)
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, “A New Era in America’s Racial Politics: How a racial reparations alliance can prove that Black lives matter.” (August 27, 2020)
Kristopher Burrell, “When It Comes to Racial Justice, Why Is It Wrong to Demand the `Impossible’? Because when white comfort matters most, Black lives are not a priority.” (November 3, 2020)
Simon Behrman, “Grassroots Asylum: Escaping the Statist Paradigm.” (December 17, 2020)
Sidney Tarrow, “From Mad Cows to Coronavirus: When government fails, grassroots activism flourishes.” (March 17, 2020)
Claire Potter, “Wired Politics: Social media is crucial to organizing modern protests: It is also a vulnerability.” (June 4, 2020)