Making the Radical University
Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966-1991
Seiten
2024
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-759-6 (ISBN)
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-759-6 (ISBN)
Details how American universities became a battleground for identity politics from the 1960s to the 1980s. Focusing on two case studies at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, this book examines how curricular changes led to polarizing discussions around academic standards and identity politics.
In the 1960s, professors, students, and activists on the political Left viewed college curricula as useful sites for political transformation. They coordinated efforts to alter general education requirements at the college level to foster change in American thought, with greater openness toward people who had previously been excluded, including women, people of color, the poor and working classes, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community. Their work reshaped American culture and politics, while prompting a significant backlash from conservatives attempting to, in their view, protect classical education from modern encroachment. Elizabeth M. Kalbfleisch details how American universities became a battleground for identity politics from the 1960s through the 1980s. Focusing on two case studies at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, Making the Radical University examines how curricular changes led to polarizing discussions nationwide around academic standards and identity politics, including the so-called canon wars. Today, these debates have only become more politically charged, complex, and barbed.
In the 1960s, professors, students, and activists on the political Left viewed college curricula as useful sites for political transformation. They coordinated efforts to alter general education requirements at the college level to foster change in American thought, with greater openness toward people who had previously been excluded, including women, people of color, the poor and working classes, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community. Their work reshaped American culture and politics, while prompting a significant backlash from conservatives attempting to, in their view, protect classical education from modern encroachment. Elizabeth M. Kalbfleisch details how American universities became a battleground for identity politics from the 1960s through the 1980s. Focusing on two case studies at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, Making the Radical University examines how curricular changes led to polarizing discussions nationwide around academic standards and identity politics, including the so-called canon wars. Today, these debates have only become more politically charged, complex, and barbed.
Elizabeth M. Kalbfleisch is associate professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Curricular Activism on Campus, 1966–1971
Chapter 2
Identity, Politics, and Identity Politics
Chapter 3
The Canon Wars and Identity Politics at Stanford
Chapter 4
The Escalating Canon Wars and Racism and Sexism at the University of Texas, Austin
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Massachusetts |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62534-759-6 / 1625347596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62534-759-6 / 9781625347596 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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