Starving for justice : hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of California, Los Angeles--Student strike, 1993.

University of California, Los Angeles.

University of California, Santa Barbara--Student strike, 1994.

University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stanford University--Student strike, 1994.

Stanford University.

Hunger strikes--California.

Hunger strikes.

Student protesters--California.

Student protesters.

Hispanic American college students--California.

Hispanic American college students.

California.

Physical Description:

xvii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Focusing on three hunger strikes occurring on university campuses in California in the 1990s, Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval examines people's willingness to make the extreme sacrifice and give their lives for justice"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Starving for justice: hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity

Chapter 2. "Speak about destruction": coloniality, humiliation, and self-sacrifice

Chapter 3. UCLA: "hungry for justice"

Chapter 4. UC Santa Barbara: "we offer our lives a moral protest"

Chapter 5. Stanford: "things aren't right here"

Chapter 6. "Two, three, or many hunger strikes": screaming and dreaming of a new world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816532582

0816532583

OCLC:

961159869