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Taking back the academy! : history of activism, history as activism / edited by Jim Downs & Jennifer Manion.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Downs, Jim, 1973-
Manion, Jen, 1974-
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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