Jasper James, the author of "A Practical Guide to Peaceful Protest," is a multifaceted figure—a respected educator, a renowned activist, and a thought leader with a diverse background as a Billboard recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Jasper's journey has been as dynamic as it has been impactful. With a social justice career spanning over a decade, they have contributed to the Board of the ACLU, held the position of President of the Women's March, and played a pivotal ro...

Systemic Threads: Unraveling Injustice, Weaving Change - A Guide to the Black Bill of Rights & ACLU Community Toolkit by Jasper JamesIn Systemic Threads: Unraveling Injustice, Weaving Change, social justice advocate Jasper James offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing the Black Bill of Rights (BBR) and the ACLU Community Toolkit.Drawing on over two decades of experience in activism and community leadership, James presents a clear and actionable framew...

"The Intersection: An Introduction to the Social Justice as a Spiritual Practice Framework - A Workbook for Faith-Based Communities" by Jasper James is a groundbreaking guide designed to integrate social justice principles within spiritual practices and faith-based communities. This comprehensive workbook provides a framework for combining activism with spirituality, aimed at fostering collective empowerment and creating inclusive, supportive environments.Drawing on over two decade...

The Family is the most ancient and the most sacred of human institutions; the least likely to be overthrown by revolutionary attacks. In epochs of change the Family naturally invites the attentions of impetuous reformers, like Shelley (who advocated a scheme more than any other apt to shock the conscience of a savage), and like the friends of 'Free Love,' who would introduce a license beyond the Urabunna model. The horror aroused by certain relations, such as that of brother-and-sister mar...

In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again.There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus has mostly been on the calculating brain—a byproduct of structuralism and cognitive studies...

Heroes, villains, victims, and minions are more important than ever before in our politics and culture. In the era of television, Twitter, and Facebook, groups and individuals constantly battle over their reputations. One of the best ways to gain power is to persuade others that you are competent, courageous, and benevolent, while your opponents are none of these. Thus, character work consists of more than simple claims of fact; societies build their solidarity and policies out of admirati...

Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately have on our world?In this lively and compelling book, James Jasper, an international expert on the cultural and emotional dimensions of social movements, shows that we cannot answer these questions until we bring cultur...

Presents cutting edge theory about the consequences of social movements and protest while asking what kind of trade-offs protest movements face in trying to change the world around them. Many scholars have tried to figure out why some social movements have an impact and others do not. By looking inside movements at their component parts and recurrent strategic interactions, the authors of Gains and Losses show that movements usually produce a variety of effects, i...

The strategic interactions between protestors and their targets shape the world around us in profound ways. The editors and contributors to Protesters and Their Targets—all leading scholars in the study of social movements—look at why movements do what they do and why their interactions with other societal actors turn out as they do. They recognize that targets are not stationary but react to the movement and require the movement to react back.This edited collection analyz...

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movementProvides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical readerComb...

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention.With evidence from more than ...

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention.With evidence from more than ...