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We Demand - The University and Student Protests (Hardcover)
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We Demand - The University and Student Protests (Hardcover)
Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present, 1
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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an
e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn
more. In the post-World War II period, students rebelled against
the university establishment. In student-led movements, women,
minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people demanded that
universities adapt to better serve the increasingly heterogeneous
public and student bodies. The success of these movements had a
profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth
century: out of these efforts were born ethnic studies, women's
studies, and American studies. In We Demand, Roderick A. Ferguson
demonstrates that less than fifty years since this pivotal shift in
the academy, the university is moving away from "the people" in all
their diversity. Today the university is refortifying its
commitment to the defense of the status quo off campus and the
regulation of students, faculty, and staff on campus. The
progressive forms of knowledge that the student-led movements
demanded and helped to produce are being attacked on every front.
Not only is this a reactionary move against the social advances
since the '60s and '70s-it is part of the larger threat of
anti-intellectualism in the United States.
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