{"id":6540,"date":"2019-08-20T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:32:50","slug":"social-justice-activism-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=6540","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Activism in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>&nbsp; Sarah McNamara, Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&amp;M University<br><strong>Date &amp; Time: <\/strong>August 27, 2019, 16:00-17:30<br><strong>Location:<\/strong>  The Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development, 9 Alex Manoogyan, Room # 106, Yerevan, Armenia<br><strong>Language: <\/strong>English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twentieth century was an era\ndefined by political upheaval and social justice that changed the meaning of\ncitizenship and equality in the United States. In this talk, Dr. Sarah\nMcNamara, Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&amp;M University, explores\nhow social justice activism transformed communities and national political\npolicies. Dr. McNamara will center on historical movements for social,\neconomic, and political equality that created sustainable frameworks for\npresent-day issues. Following the presentation, Dr. McNamara will participate\nin a discussion and Q&amp;A with audience members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah McNamara is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&amp;M\nUniversity. Her research centers on immigration, women and gender, social\njustice, and labor histories in the modern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is hosted by the Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development\n(UFSD) and sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus\n(ARISC). It is open and free for public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ARISC does not discriminate on the basis\nof race, color, national origin, religion, sex, physical or mental disability,\nmedical condition, ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, or status\nas a covered veteran with respect to membership, rights, privileges, programs\nor activities of ARISC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:&nbsp; Sarah McNamara, Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&amp;M UniversityDate &amp; Time: August 27,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia-events-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}