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Freedom's web : student activism in an age of cultural diversity

Title: Freedom's web : student activism in an age of cultural diversity / Robert A. Rhoads.
Author: Rhoads, Robert A.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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xii, 291 pages; 24 cm

Summary

From the Mills College strike of 1990 to the Chicano Studies movement at UCLA, from African American student unrest at Rutgers University in 1995 to student protest in California against the passage of Propositions 187 and 209, issues of cultural diversity have rocked college campuses for much of this decade. Indeed, Robert Rhoads locates the key to understanding renewed student activism in the 1990s within the struggle over multiculturalism.
In Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, he focuses on how students have utilized what many scholars describe, both affectionately and pejoratively, as "identity politics" to advance various concerns tied to diversity issues.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.

Contents

1. Passion and Protest on Campus -- 2. Historical Webs of Connection: Revisiting the 1960s -- 3. "Immigrants in Our Own Land": The Chicano Studies Movement at UCLA -- 4. "Strong Women, Proud Women": The Mills College Strike -- 5. "Promises Made, Promises Kept": The Struggle of American Indians at Michigan State -- 6. "We're Here. We're Queer. Get Used to It.": Gay Liberation at Penn State -- 7. "Genetic, Hereditary Background": African American Resistance at Rutgers -- 8. Collective Consciousness: Toward an Activist Identity.

ISBN

0801858879 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98005004

OCLC

ocm38215711

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Columbia University Libraries