Fabio Rojas is a professor of sociology at Indiana University at Bloomington. He’s the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement and Theory for the Working Sociologist published by Columbia University Press. He blogs at Orgtheory.wordpress.com.

06:30 Understanding the rules of activism
08:13 Doing activist work that’s unsatisfying but important
11:18 Visiting Wellesley University’s Freedom Project
22:15 Is understanding necessary for effective activism?
26:34 Two new articles: a new survey of student activism; Defining scholarly roles