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5 books to help you better understand today’s campus protests

  • Written by Steve Friess, Independent writer and editor, University of Michigan
5 books to help you better understand today’s campus protests

Every so often, a cause ignites a sustained fury on college campuses across the nation. In 2020, it was Black Lives Matter[1]. In 2011, it was Occupy Wall Street[2]. In the 1980s, it was apartheid in South Africa[3]. Right now, it’s the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Since college protests tend to draw comparisons to the 1960s, it’s helpful to know more about that heritage. Here are five books about the history of campus demonstrations:

‘America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s’

A chaotic image of student activists mounting a statue on a college campus during the 1960s.
Oxford University Press This primer on the politics and history of the 1960s recounts the Cuban missile crisis[4] and moves through the many events that led to and fueled student activism, including the Vietnam War and key moments in the Civil Rights Movement. Published in 1999 and now in its fifth edition, it is co-written by Hamilton College history professor Maurice Isserman[5], who studies leftist movements, and Michael Kazin[6], a Georgetown University expert on U.S. politics and social movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. ‘Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s’ Black protesters, including two small boys in the foreground holding signs urging Columbia University to 'get the hell out and stay out' of Harlem in the 1960s.
University of Illinois Press Given how prominent the Columbia demonstrations have been this year, it’s worth delving into the impact[7] of a historically white, male bastion like the Ivy League school that abuts New York’s Harlem. Stefan M. Bradley’s[8] 2009 history focuses on the intertwined rises of Black and student power in response to Columbia’s attempt to build a largely segregated gymnasium in the small green park that separates it from Harlem. ‘Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s’ Mario Savio holding a microphone and a pencil as he speaks outside a building at University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s. Oxford University Press It took until 2009 for someone to write a definitive biography[9] of Savio, a visionary who sensed how campus protests could change America. But New York University historian Robert Cohen[10]’s 544-page tome, based on personal papers, recordings of speeches and countless interviews, brings to life accomplishments of a major leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. His “Bodies Upon the Gears” speech[11] in 1964 could easily be adopted as the mantra of today’s pro-Palestinian movement. ‘The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College Campuses’ An illustration of student activists on a city street holding signs while marching. Johns Hopkins University Press Months before the murder of George Floyd sparked BLM protests and years before Hamas attacked Israel, Villanova education professor Jerusha O. Conner[12] published her examination[13] of how 1960s-style activism had returned to college campuses. Still, her examination of the current generation of student activists helps explain why they’ve been so effective at drawing attention and making change. Among other misconceptions, she debunks the myth that student activists today are fragile “snowflakes” operating from a sense of entitlement. ‘The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today’ Red neck-down silhouettes of four campus protesters against a blue backdrop. University of Chicago Press For a more contemporary look at student activism, pick up this slim volume[14] by Johns Hopkins sociologist Amy J. Binder[15] and Northern Illinois University sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder[16] that analyzes how the well-funded national conservative movement is building its own army of campus activists to remarkable effect. The authors argue that voices from the left and the right are being “channeled into two distinct forms of mobilization and why that has profound consequences for the future of American politics.” References^ Black Lives Matter (www.businessinsider.com)^ Occupy Wall Street (www.nytimes.com)^ was apartheid in South Africa (www.aamarchives.org)^ recounts the Cuban missile crisis (global.oup.com)^ Maurice Isserman (www.hamilton.edu)^ Michael Kazin (gufaculty360.georgetown.edu)^ delving into the impact (www.press.uillinois.edu)^ Stefan M. Bradley’s (www.amherst.edu)^ write a definitive biography (global.oup.com)^ Robert Cohen (steinhardt.nyu.edu)^ Bodies Upon the Gears” speech (ushistoryscene.com)^ Jerusha O. Conner (www1.villanova.edu)^ published her examination (www.press.jhu.edu)^ pick up this slim volume (press.uchicago.edu)^ Amy J. Binder (soc.jhu.edu)^ Jeffrey L. Kidder (www.niu.edu)Authors: Steve Friess, Independent writer and editor, University of Michigan

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