“Just Kids offers important insight into the recent rhetorical practices of young activists. Charting the persuasive tactics of children and adolescents advocating international peace, protection from deportation, and gun reform, it models innovative research methods and conceptualizes new methodologies for analyzing collective action for social and political change.” —Henrietta Rix Wood, author of Praising Girls: The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895–1930
“Applegarth provides an in-depth study of major contemporary social movements and demonstrates how protesters and advocates often hold the key to understanding social change. Just Kids urges us all to evaluate the history of social movements as well as the methods we use in our research.” —Amanda Nell Edgar, author of Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture