04148nam 22007575 450 991079287670332120230809223246.09780520966284(electronic bk)10.1525/9780520966284(CKB)3710000001116808(MiAaPQ)EBC4711970(DE-B1597)521138(DE-B1597)9780520966284(OCoLC)974035573(EXLCZ)99371000000111680820190920d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWe demand the university and student protests /Roderick A. FergusonBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (112 pages)American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ;10-520-29300-2 0-520-29299-5 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overview -- Introduction -- 1. TheUsable past of Kent State and Jackson State --2. ThePowell 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:"Rules" for Radicals --Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary -- Key figures -- Selected Bibliography"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.Student movementsUnited StatesMinoritiesEducation (Higher)United StatesHistoryKent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970Public universities and collegesCurriculaUnited StatesHistoryUniversities and collegesCurriculaUnited StatesHistoryEducational equalizationUnited StatesHistory20th century protest.american studies.campus activism.college student.ethnic studies.human rights advocate.immigration.indigenous people.intellectual landscape.poly sci student.social movement.student body leader.successful social movements.womens rights.womens studies.Student movementsMinoritiesEducation (Higher)History.Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970.Public universities and collegesCurriculaHistory.Universities and collegesCurriculaHistory.Educational equalizationHistory.977.4/34043Ferguson Roderick A.713677DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910792876703321We demand3718269UNINA