Advocacy and Protest in Social Movements

This course examines the advocacy, protest, and organizing strategies of activists and social movement leaders working for the equity and justice of groups marginalized according to race, gender, class, ethnicity, citizenship,sexuality, ability, or religion. The course will focus on the coalition-building and agitation tactics of one or more social movements to explore: their constraints and obstacles; their use of oral, written, embodied, and mediated forms ofprotest; the impact and implications of their strategies; and the responses to their activism.