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We think we are at a pivotal moment in American and global history. It is a time for a discussion of where we are going as a national society and as a global society and how we in the universities might influence that direction. And as in the past, if we seek a society with greater social justice, we will have to look to the mobilization of popular protest movements. As much as we would like to believe that the “arc of history bends towards justice,” we should not be confident that this is the case. In the past, it has always been indignant people at the bottom of societies who have been the real force for such justice as we have achieved.
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Piven, F.F., Shefner, J. (2014). A New Popular Movement for Social Justice in the United States and Beyond. In: Shefner, J., Dahms, H.F., Jones, R.E., Jalata, A. (eds) Social Justice and the University. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289384_15
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