Research Guides: Online Book Display: Protest and Student Activism

Digital Resources

Student Resistance : a history of the unruly subject by Mark Edelman Boren
ISBN: 9780429488467

Publication Date: 2019-04-25

Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject observes the rise and progression of student activism across the globe. By selecting critical case studies from the medieval to modern period, Mark Boren reveals how friction between activists and the academy can culminate in a violent struggle for power. Using a uniquely international approach, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of university activism and its influence on national politics and broader social movements.
Student Activism in Asia by Meredith L. Weiss
ISBN: 0816682615

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressedOComost famously in ChinaOCOs Tiananmen Square and in Burma.
Girls Resist! by KaeLyn Rich; Giulia Sagramola (Illustrator)
Call Number: UNI Youth Y 303 R

ISBN: 9781683690597

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

GIRLS RESIST is a cool, relevant, timely activism handbook that speaks to teen girl readers like the intelligent and passionate people they are.
Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education by Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
ISBN: 1317048970

Publication Date: 2016-04-01

This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. The book demonstrates that social movements targeting colleges and universities play a major role in curricular change and sets forward a new model for understanding what it takes for social movements targeting organizations to make an impact.
Freedom's Web by Robert A. Rhoads
Call Number: UNI Stacks LA229 .R56 1998

ISBN: 0801858879

Publication Date: 1998-10-14

Rhoads builds a convincing argument that identity politics is a response to cultural hegemony reinforced through longstanding monocultural norms of the academy. Balkanization, he concludes, is more the byproduct of traditional academic structures that promote exclusion over inclusion, authoritarianism over democracy, and xenophobia over a concern for others.
The Loud Minority by Daniel Q. Gillion
ISBN: 9780691201726

Publication Date: 2020-03-10

How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior The "silent majority"--a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan--refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed and influenced by protest activism.
Challenging Authority by Frances Fox Piven
ISBN: 0742563405

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics.
Dissent by Ralph Young
ISBN: 9781479806652

Publication Date: 2015-04-24

Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices Dissent: The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time: from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan in the seventeenth century, to the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the twenty-first century.
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements by Immanuel Ness
ISBN: 9780765680457

Publication Date: 2004-08-31

This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.
Prairie Power by Robbie Lieberman
Call Number: UNI Stacks LB3610 .L54 2004

ISBN: 9780826215222

Publication Date: 2004-05-10

Prairie Power, a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s, focuses on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University.
Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy by Ekim Arbatli (Editor); Dina Rosenberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9783319514536

Publication Date: 2017-03-10

This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016.
Shelter in a Time of Storm by Jelani M. Favors
ISBN: 9781469648347

Publication Date: 2019-02-08

For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. I
Shut It Down by Lisa Fithian
ISBN: 9781603588850

Publication Date: 2019-09-03

A veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change
Kent State and May 4th by Thomas R. Hensley (Editor); Jerry Lewis (Editor)
ISBN: 1631011197

Publication Date: 2015-03-13

A sociological study of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University and their aftermath
Teaching for Dissent by Sarah Marie Stitzlein
Call Number: UNI Stacks LC1091 .S75 2014

ISBN: 9781612052281

Publication Date: 2012-09-30

ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE Teaching for Dissent looks at the implications of new forms of dissent for educational practice.
Black Software by Charlton D. McIlwain
Call Number: UNI Stacks P94.5.A37 M35 2020

ISBN: 9780190863845

Publication Date: 2019-11-01

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know.
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability by Pamela Block (Editor); Devva Kasnitz (Editor); Akemi Nishida (Editor); Nick Pollard (Editor)
ISBN: 9789401799843

Publication Date: 2015-09-03

Inspired by disability justice and "Disability Occupy Wall Street / Decolonize Disability" movements in the US and related movements abroad, this book builds on politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect occupational therapy, disability studies and anthropology.
Social justice : theories, issues, and movements
ISBN: 1978806892

Conceptions of justice: philosophical, sociological, and criminological -- Distributive justice -- Retributive justice -- Toward transformative justice -- Multiculturalism and globalism: challenges and opportunities for developing forms of justice -- Environmental, ecological, and species justice -- Indigenous, postcolonial, and counter-colonial forms of justice -- Postmodern, post postmodern, and posthumanist forms of justice -- Legal struggles and social justice -- Justice and grassroots struggles -- Emerging conceptions of justice in a global arena.
The NFL National Anthem Protests by Margaret Haerens
ISBN: 9781440869044

Publication Date: 2018-12-31

This volume provides a concise but authoritative overview of the NFL national anthem protests and the fierce debates they have sparked about patriotism, constitutional rights, military service, police brutality, and social justice. Provides a bibliography of sources for further study
Rallying for Immigrant Rights by Kim Voss (Editor); Irene Bloemraad (Editor)
ISBN: 0520948912

Publication Date: 2011-07-06

From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the United States since the 1960s.
The Stonewall Reader by Jason Bauman, ed.
ISBN: 9780525505303

Publication Date: 2019

or the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White
Black Lives Matter and Music by Fernando Orejuela (Contribution by, Editor); Stephanie Shonekan (Contribution by, Editor); Portia K. Maultsby (Foreword by); Langston Collin Wilkins (Contribution by); Alison Martin (Contribution by); Denise Dalphond (Contribution by)
ISBN: 025303843X

Publication Date: 2018-08-10

Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Each chapter in Black Lives Matter and Music focuses on a particular case study, with the goal to inspire and facilitate productive dialogues among scholars, students, and the communities we study.
Above the Shots by Craig S. Simpson; Gregory Wilson (Editor)
ISBN: 1631012355

Publication Date: 2016-05-15

A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, along with the tragic injuries and lives lost, was a remarkable array of conflicting interpretations and theories about what happened--and why.

News Databases

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Gale Primary Sources: The Times Digital Archive (1785-2014)
Archive of The Times (formerly The Daily Universal Register) from the first issue published in 1785 up to 2014.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Books, pamphlets, newspapers, journals, music, and graphic arts materials printed in the United States before 1876.
Gale Academic OneFile
Journal articles, books, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area.

Recent News Articles

"Do Protests Even Work?"
The Atlantic
"7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism"
The New York Times
"'Protest Writing' workshop gives students an outlet to fight racial injustice and bullying"
CNN

Columbia University - 1968 student protests
Online images and descriptions relating to the 1968 student protests at Columbia University.
Digital Public Library of America - Nonviolent Protest
Explores the ways that civil rights activists challenged racial inequality through nonviolent protest.
Library of Congress - Civil Rights History Project
Survey of collections and repositories related to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
UW Bothell Feminist Community Archive of Washington
"The Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA-WA) documents and preserves the work and history of feminist social justice organizations in Bothell and the Puget Sound region. With the guidance and instruction of UW Bothell faculty, UW Bothell student researchers conduct interviews and oral histories with activists and organization members and founders, collect documents and media important to the organizations’ formation and actions, and record organization events. The products of these student research and knowledge production activities comprise the content of the Archive. "

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Gale Academic OneFile
Journal articles, books, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area.
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies
Journal articles, magazines, news, and reports exploring issues about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
JSTOR
Journal articles and books, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Project Muse
Journal articles and books about literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
Journal articles on behavioral science and mental health, including empirical studies, and qualitative and quantitative research. Access the former version of APA PsycInfo (EBSCO), which includes the option to search cited articles.

Recommended subject headings to begin your search:

Black lives matter movement
Boycotts
Civil disobedience
Civil rights movements
College students- political history
Congress of racial equity
Demonstrations
Nonviolence
Occupy movement
Political art
Protest camps
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Riots
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Students for a Democratic Society
Students political activity
Youth protest movements

Select Journal Articles

"#MeToo and Student Activism against Sexual Violence"
Carrie A. Rentschler
"Power for the Powerless: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Late Theory of Civil Disobedience"
Alexander Livingston
"The Arab Spring Protests and Concurrent Disability Protests: Social Movement Spillover or Spurious Relationship?"
N. Sharon

Kanopy Videos and DVDs

Awakening
The story of the birth of the modern Women's Movement.
Access via Kanopy.
Becoming more visible
Are you Male or Female? For the four fearless young transgender adults featured in the film this is not a simple question. These four defy societal norms to be their true selves and become more visible.
Access via Kanopy
Berkley in the Sixties
Call Number: UNI Video DVD E841 .B425 2002 DVD

A documentary about student political activity in the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960's.
Cesar Chavez
Call Number: UNI Youth Y B CHA DVD

Cesar Chavez overcame huge obstacles...to achieve his goal of helping to organize the first successful union for America's farm workers.
Delivering Psychological services in the midst of social injustice
Call Number: UNI Video DVD RA790.5 .G74 2007 DVD

A lecture focused on delivery of the competent psychological services to members of the marginalized groups in a current atmosphere of social injustice.
The hand that holds the bread : progress and protest in the gilded age : songs from the Civil War to the Columbian Exposition.
Call Number: UNI Fine and Performing Arts M1627.U5 R311 NW 267 Disc

Recorded anthology of American music (Series)
Indy Media War and Peace Trilogy
Call Number: UNI Video DVD DS79.76 .I54 2003 DVD

Contains 3 documentaries: Independent Media In A Time Of War; Voices Against War: F15 NYC: Womens' Fast For Peace.
Iowans Return to Freedom Summer
Call Number: UNI Video DVD E185.615 .I59 2015 DVD

Iowans Return to Freedom Summer gives firsthand accounts of the experiences of six Iowa natives who, though personally unfamiliar with racial issues, felt compelled to volunteer that summer.
Lives worth living: the great fight for disability rights
Call Number: UNI Video DVD HV1553 .L57 2011 DVD

The movement forms -- Widespread abuses -- Independent living -- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- Fight for 504 -- New leaders emerge -- Drafting the ADA -- Crawl up & rotunda -- Signing the ADA.
Presents an overview of the disability rights movement in the United States, focusing on the story of Fred Fay, a man who had survived spinal cord injury when he was 16.
Not just a game : power, politics & American sports
American sports have long been at the center of some of the major cultural struggles of our time.
Access via Kanopy
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Call Number: UNI Video DVD DT636.5 .P73 2009 DVD

Chronicles the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their country.
The Progressive Era
Causes and varieties of progressive reform efforts in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Access via Kanopy.
SoleJourney
Call Number: UNI Video DVD HM1281 .S65 2009 DVD

Documents a dedicated and courageous group of individuals who took a six-day, 65 mile march from the Colorado State Capitol in Denver to the Focus on the Family's headquarters in Colorado Springs to expose the well-funded, politically powerful organization that assaults the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families.

Code Switch: NPR podcast
A podcast examining race and its role in every aspect of society, from politics to sports, and more.
FiveThirtyEight "Politics Podcast"
This podcast covers political issues every week, including the protests of the past few months.
TEDTalks Playlist - The Power of Protest
On this day: Four killed in Kent State shooting

SCUA Highlight: Funeral for Academics Tombstones
SCUA Highlight : UNI 7
UNI Scholarworks : A Midwestern Culture of Civility: Student activism at the University of Northern Iowa during the Maucker years (1967-1970)
UNI Scholarworks : Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal
UNI Scholarworks : UNI Quarterly, Fall 1969
"Student Protests: Pro and Con" and "Moratorium: Living for Peace"