TSC Sociologist, Valerie Chepp, recently published a new edited volume titled, "Readings in Social Justice: Power, Inequality, and Action." A particularly poignant excerpt is from bell hooks's "Engaged Pedagogy" https://titles.cognella.com/readings-in-social-justice-9781793527677

A year ago today, #AmandaGorman's #spokenword poem captivated the world. In her new book #SpeakingTruths, sociologist (and TSC founder) Valerie Chepp shows how #youth use spoken word #poetry & the power of their own biographies to incite #justice https://tinyurl.com/34n8cyxj https://tinyurl.com/u3tsanac #activism @RutgersUPress

All this talk about Lena Dunham's Hipster Racism reminds me of the article I published with Valerie Chepp in 2015 on Hipster Sexism. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30364-2_15

@thesociologicalcinema and friends at the Women’s March on Washington, 1/21/2017

“My research illustrates some unique ways that young people are politically engaging in the public sphere in order to identify common concerns and advocate for solutions. Unlike Habermas’s (1989) vision, these political discussions are not rooted in rational-critical discourse. On the contrary, poets necessarily draw upon subjectivity, emotionality, and performativity—rather than rationality or “reason”—to assert political claims and judgments. The artistic practice of spoken word is central to this activist approach.”