LEADER 05005nam 22007575 450 001 9910779662403321 005 20230126203250.0 010 $a0-8014-6612-1 010 $a0-8014-6615-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801466151 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038453 035 $a(EBL)3138409 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001082763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11615993 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11098709 035 $a(PQKB)11478307 035 $a(DE-B1597)478494 035 $a(OCoLC)984684055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801466151 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138409 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038453 100 $a20170419d2012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCornell '69 $eLiberalism and the Crisis of the American University /$fDonald Alexander Downs 210 1$aIthaca, N.Y. : $cCornell University Press, $d[2012] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-7838-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface to the 2012 Paperback Edition -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCornell University Map -- $t1. Overview of the Crisis -- $tTHE ROAD TO THE STRAIGHT -- $t2. Student Militancy -- $t3. The Rise of Racial Politics -- $t4. Racial Justice versus Academic Freedom -- $t5. Separation or Integration? -- $t6. Progress or Impasse? -- $t7. Liberal Justice or Racism? -- $tTHE STRAIGHT CRISIS -- $t8. Day 1: The Takeover and the Arming of the Campus -- $t9. Day 2: The Deal -- $t10. Day 3: A "Revolutionary Situation" -- $t11. Day 4: Student Power -- $t12. Day 5: A New Order -- $tTHE AFTERMATH -- $t13. Reform, Reaction, Resignation -- $t14. Cornell and the Failure of Liberalism -- $tChronology -- $tParticipants -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend-and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism.Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law.Eyewitness accounts and retrospective interviews depict the explosive events of the day and bring the key participants into sharp focus: the Afro-American Society, outraged at a cross-burning incident on campus and demanding amnesty for its members implicated in other protests; University President James A. Perkins, long committed to addressing the legacies of racism, seeing his policies backfire and his career collapse; the faculty, indignant at the university's surrender, rejecting the administration's concessions, then reversing itself as the crisis wore on. The weekend's traumatic turn of events is shown by Downs to be a harbinger of the debates raging today over the meaning of the university in American society. He explores the fundamental questions it posed, questions Americans on and off campus are still struggling to answer: What is the relationship between racial justice and intellectual freedom? What are the limits in teaching identity politics? And what is the proper meaning of the university in a democratic polity? 606 $aBlack power -- United States -- History 606 $aCornell University -- Administration -- History 606 $aCornell University -- Student strike, 1969 606 $aEducation, Humanistic -- United States 606 $aStudent movements -- United States -- History 606 $aStudent movements$xHistory$zUnited States 606 $aBlack power$xHistory$zUnited States 606 $aEducation, Humanistic$zUnited States 606 $aEducation$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEducational Institutions$2HILCC 615 4$aBlack power -- United States -- History. 615 4$aCornell University -- Administration -- History. 615 4$aCornell University -- Student strike, 1969. 615 4$aEducation, Humanistic -- United States. 615 4$aStudent movements -- United States -- History. 615 0$aStudent movements$xHistory 615 0$aBlack power$xHistory 615 0$aEducation, Humanistic 615 7$aEducation 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEducational Institutions 676 $a378.747 71 700 $aDowns$b Donald Alexander.$01042537 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779662403321 996 $aCornell '69$93698530 997 $aUNINA