Useful links for the Social Movements Class
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND RESEARCH GUIDES
- Social Movements and Culture – Cultural Politics
- NYPL Social Movements in America Research Guide
- Black Lives Matter: Race, Policing, and Protest
TIMELINES AND MAPS
- Protests since 1979 mapped
- Mapping Social Movements in the US
- Environmental Justice Atlas
- Civil Rights Timeline
- Black Social Movements Timeline
- Gay Rights Timeline
- Women’s Rights Timeline
- Latino Movements Timeline
INTERESTING MEDIA REPORTS/ ANALYTICS
15 dollar campaign
- The Atlantic article on living wage campaign
- “Countermovement” – the Times Square billboard (and 2)
Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement by Vann R. Newkirk II
Tea Party Movement(The New Yorker)
The Four Habits of Highly Successful Social Movements (by Ezra Klein)
Jo Freeman Movements of the 1960s
World Protests 2006-13, Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada and Hernan Cortes
Mapping the global battle to protect our planet. The Guardian
Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. response to Occupy Wall Street
VIDEO
Selections and lists:
Film Recommendations for Social Movements Classes
Films for Action, 100 Documentaries (General Interest, not all on movements)
Wiki on sociology films (all topics)
Video clips and full documentaries
This is What Democracy Looks Like (Seattle)
How to Survive a Plague (Act Up!)
Mean Things Happening: PBS Great Depression Series (1993)
The Young Lords, the Puerto Rican nationalist group active in East Harlem in the 60s-70s
Freedom Summer Short; and Freedom Summer Full Documentary
Racism, School Desegregation Laws and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
The Sixties – The Years That Shaped a Generation (TV) [2005]
A Place Called Chiapas – Full (A Place Called Chiapas – Trailer)
Occupy Wall Street
Environmental
Anna Zhelnina 
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