Interchange – Fabio Rojas: Black Power and the Anti-war Movement

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Host Dave Stewart welcomes Professor Fabio Rojas of the I.U. Department of Sociology for a wide ranging discussion on the anti-war movement, and how the Black Power movement caused Black Studies to be an field of academic study.  Beginning with a discussion on how the election of President Obama resulted in a reduction of Democrats who attend anti-war protests, we segue into the study of the relationship between social movements and mainstream politics with the result of those social movement ideas getting a foothold in the mainstream which then develop.