Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent and Patriotism in 21st Century America

Authors

Eric Burin, University of North DakotaFollow

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Protesting on Bended Knee eyes the modern crusade for racial equality through the prism of the demonstrations associated with Colin Kaepernick, a professional football player who in 2016 began kneeling during the national anthem to draw attention to discrimination and injustice. A diverse array of thirty-one authors explain in brief essays what they see in the protests; collectively, they describe where the demonstrations fit within Americans’ quest to form “a more perfect union”; the legal landscape of dissent; the revival of athlete-activists; the tactics of protesters and counter-tactics of their opponents; and the perspective of others—reporters, coaches, players, and fans—“in the arena.” Their observations, along with an extensive Introduction by historian Eric Burin, provide a nearly contemporaneous account of the latest chapter in a freedom struggle as old as America itself.

Eric Burin is Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, and author of Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society (2005) and editor of Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College (2016).

ISBN

978-1-7328410-1-7

DOI

10.31356/dpb013

Publication Date

10-16-2018

Geographic Subjects

United States

Publisher

The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

City

Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

Football players--United States ; African Americans--Civil rights ; Political activists--United States ; Protest movements--Cross-cultural studies ; Social movements--Cross-cultural studies ; Patriotism |z United States

Disciplines

Social Psychology and Interaction

Comments

Unless otherwise indicated, all contributions to this volume appear under a Creative Common BY 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Burin, Eric, "Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent and Patriotism in 21st Century America" (2018). Digital Press Books. 13.
https://commons.und.edu/press-books/13

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.