Speaking Truths - Chepp, Valerie
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The twenty-first century has seen countless protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards, there are also young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind the scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry—and young people’s participation in it—contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation’s attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love.…mehr

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The twenty-first century has seen countless protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards, there are also young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind the scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry—and young people’s participation in it—contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation’s attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love.
Autorenporträt
VALERIE CHEPP is an associate staff qualitative researcher in the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and associate professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Previously she served as associate professor of sociology and director of the Social Justice Program at Hamline University. She is the editor of Readings in Social Justice: Power, Inequality, & Action and co-editor of the qualitative methods book Cognitive Interviewing Methodology.