Taking back the academy! : history of activism, history as activism
- Publication/Creation:
- New York : Routledge, 2004
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Taking back the academy! : history of activism, history as activism / edited by Jim Downs & Jennifer Manion
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Downs, Jim, 1973-
Manion, Jennifer, 1974-
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Historians--United States--Political activity--Congresses
Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--United States--Congresses
Student movements--United States--Congresses
Social movements--United States--Congresses
Political activists--United States--Congresses
Historians--Political activity--Congresses
Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--Congresses
Student movements--Congresses
Social movements--Congresses
Political activists--Congresses
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction Bench Talk; Teaching Student Activism; Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debates about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968; Between Berlin and Berkeley Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Student Movements of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective; Unionizing for a More Democratic and Responsive University; What Is a University? Anti-Union Campaigns in Academia; Where Have All the Politics Gone? A Graduate Student's Reflections; The Glass Tower: Half Full or Half Empty?; Toxic Torts: Historians in the Courtroom
The Most Craven Abdication of Democratic Principles: On the U.S. Attack on IraqForging Activist Alliances: Identity, Identification, and Position; Calling All Liberals: Connecting Feminist Theory, Activism, and History; Producing for Use and Teaching the Whole Student: Can Pedagogy Be a Form of Activism?; Teaching Across the Color Line: A Warning About Identity Politics in the Classroom; 2.5 Cheers for Bridgin - Summary:
- A history of activism on campus since the 1960s and an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- General Note:
- Papers derived from a conference held at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. in 2002.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936711598602486
- ISBN:
- 1-135-93542-4
1-135-93543-2
1-280-09883-X
0-203-33958-4 - OCLC Number:
- 475906876
57046557 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.4324/9780203339589
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