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Taking back the academy! : history of activism, history as activism / edited by Jim Downs & Jennifer Manion.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--United States--Political activity--Congresses.
- Historians.
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Student movements--United States--Congresses.
- Student movements.
- Social movements--United States--Congresses.
- Social movements.
- Political activists--United States--Congresses.
- Political activists.
- Historians--Political activity--Congresses.
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--Congresses.
- Student movements--Congresses.
- Social movements--Congresses.
- Political activists--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Papers derived from a conference held at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. in 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-93542-4
- 1-135-93543-2
- 1-280-09883-X
- 0-203-33958-4
- 9780203339589
- OCLC:
- 475906876
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