The Resistance Starts Now: Media and Popular Culture in the Fight Against Authoritarian Power

Autumn 2025

Across the globe, democracy is under siege.  How can we protect our basic rights, once thought to be inalienable, and restore those that have been stolen? The simple answer: Resistance. Through film and texts — including the writings of Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and Angela Davis — students will explore a partial history of protest and resistance, strategies and tactics of resistors, and the role of violence, if any, in resistance.

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