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Overview“Puts campus activism in a radical historic context.”—New York Review of Books 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roderick A. FergusonPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9780520293007ISBN 10: 0520293002 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 22 August 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsOverview Introduction 1. The Usable Past of Kent State and Jackson State 2. The Powell Memorandum and the Comeback of the Economic Machinery 3. Student Movements and Post-World War II Minority Communities 4. Neoliberalism and the Demeaning of Student Movements Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected BibliographyReviewsA deeply engaging and challenging read. * History of Education * We Demand is not an easy book to read, but it conveys how shallow most concerns about free speech on campus tend to be. * New York Review of Books * We Demand is not an easy book to read, but it conveys how shallow most concerns about free speech on campus tend to be. --New York Review of Books (06/28/2018) We Demand is not an easy book to read, but it conveys how shallow most concerns about free speech on campus tend to be. * New York Review of Books * Author InformationRoderick A. Ferguson is Professor of American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He was Associate Editor of American Quarterly from 2007 to 2010. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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