This course will examine the modern rhetorical antecedents of the discourses of dissent emerging from contemporary social justice movements, including those associated with racism, classism, homophobia, and nationalism in Canada and the United States. From the American Indian Movement to Idle No More, from Black Liberation to Black Lives Matter, from socialist labour to the New Left, from Stonewall to Queer Liberation, from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Quebec’s Values Charter Legislation, from nationalist rhetorics of the Cold War to contemporary debates on immigration, this course will provide students with grounding in contemporary theories of dissenting discourse as well as with opportunities to explore the rhetorical practice of dissent within a variety of social movements.