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On the Freedom Side - How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History (Paperback)
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On the Freedom Side - How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History (Paperback)
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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.
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