Abstract
From Black Lives Matter rallies, to Campus Free Speech protests, to Teachers Union strikes in “red states,” commentators and academics are talking about whether this represents the “revival of social movements” of the past, or represent something “new.” In this paper presentation, we discuss the development and on-going work of the Race and Injustice in Jacksonville Research Group, a Community -University partnership. Established to document the history and the social and economic effects of racism, the research group draws on information and activities from a variety of local and national social movement organizations in the development a series of educational and illuminating films, social media outlets and public presentations to challenge the community to address the long-term impact of the its racial history. As an outgrowth of this effort, we embarked on a Participatory Research and Engagement Project (PREP) effort to better understand the origins and impact of these social movement organizations. To that end, PREP team members – both research Sociologists and Community activists – are engaged with local and national social movement organizations’ leaders and members to understand these movements. Drawing on the eight main questions posed by Goodwin and Jasper (2015), this effort tries to understand whether these movements are resurrections, restorations, or renovations of previous social movements.
Presenters
Monique SampsonJeffry Will
Professor of Sociology and Director, Northeast Florida Center for Community Initiatives, University of North Florida, Florida, United States
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Social Movements Age Race Social Change
Digital Media
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