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Cornell '69 : Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University /

"In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend - and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Downs, Donald Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of the crisis
  • Student militancy
  • The rise of racial politics
  • Racial justice versus academic freedom
  • Separation or integration?
  • Progress or impasse?
  • Liberal justice or racism?
  • Day 1: the takeover and the arming of the campus
  • Day 2: the deal
  • Day 3: a "revolutionary situation"
  • Day 4: student power
  • Day 5: a new order
  • Reform, reaction, resignation
  • Cornell and the failure of liberalism.