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Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America
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John Della Volpe
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes JOHN DELLA VOLPE—director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics—for a discussion of his book Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America. He will be joined in conversation by celebrated activist, organizer, and author DAVID HOGG, and CNN Politics reporter RACHEL JANFAZA.
9/11. The war on terror. Hurricane Katrina. The 2008 financial crisis. The housing crisis. The opioid epidemic. Mass school shootings. Global warming. The Trump presidency. COVID-19.
Since they were born, Generation Z (also known as "zoomers")—those born from the late 1990s to early 2000s—have been faced with an onslaught of turmoil, destruction and instability unprecedented in modern history. And it shows: they are more stressed, anxious, and depressed than previous generations, a phenomenon John Della Volpe has documented heavily through decades of meeting with groups of young Americans across the country.
But Gen Z has not buckled under this tremendous weight. On the contrary, they have organized around issues from gun control to racial and environmental justice to economic equity, becoming more politically engaged than their elders, and showing a unique willingness to disrupt the status quo.
In Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Passion and Fear to Save America, Della Volpe draws on his vast experience to show the largest forces shaping zoomers' lives, the issues they care most about, and how they are—despite older Americans' efforts to label Gen Z as overly sensitive, lazy, and entitled—rising to the unprecedented challenges of their time to take control of their country and our future.
