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Autore |
Higgins Andrew Stone |
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Titolo |
Higher Education for All : Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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ISBN |
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9798890862365 |
9798890862372 |
9781469672922 |
1469672928 |
9781469672939 |
1469672936 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Racism in higher education |
Educational planning |
Education, Higher |
Education and state |
Educational planning - California - History - 20th century |
Education, Higher - California - History - 20th century |
Education and state - California - History - 20th century |
Racism in higher education - California - History - 20th century |
History |
Electronic books. |
California |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The Ghost of Sputnik -- 2. Striking the Knowledge Factory -- 3. The New Right Takes Aim -- 4. Black Skin, White Campus -- 5. A Master Plan for Chicanos -- 6. Their Struggle Is Our Struggle -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
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-- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"In the late 1950s, California embarked on an ambitious attempt to provide free public higher education to all high school graduates. This massive expansion of higher education in what would soon be the nation's most populous state coincided with the arrival of the counterculture on campus, a surge of organizing around ethnic studies and affirmative action programs, and the rise of the New Right, with Ronald Reagan as governor. As Andrew Stone Higgins details, this collision was no coincidence-the tension between the democratic promise of the California Master Plan for Education and the structural injustices it inadvertently reinforced ended up catalyzing the tumultuous politics of the 1960s, including both progressive campus movements and conservative backlash"-- |
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