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The lost promise : American universities in the 1960s
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"Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-w...
"Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-were only the first actions that came to redefine universities as hotbeds of unrest for some and handmaidens of oppression for others. The tensions among speech, education, and institutional funding came into focus as never before-and the reverberations remain palpable today"--
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- Creator
- Ellen Schrecker
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- Language
- English
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- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2021
- ©2021
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- ix, 621 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 022620099X, 9780226200859, 022620085X, 9780226200996
- OCLC
- on1240773392, on1285167571
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: universities in the long sixties -- Part 1: expansion and its discontents. "Good times for scholars" The golden age of American higher education -- "Memory of an earlier age" Remnants of McCarthyism in the academic community -- "The pre-sixties" The liberal moment on campus -- "The Berkeley invention" The student movement begins -- Part 2: responding to Vietnam. "Not only politically disastrous but intrinsically wrong" Early opposition to American intervention in Cuba and Vietnam -- "The most worthwhile all-nighter" Teach-ins and the antiwar movement's pedagogical moment -- "To take a stand" The academic community wrestles with the war, 1965-67 -- "Everything felt illegal" Academics and direct actions -- "An inescapable responsibility" Universities and the war machine -- "To confront campus militarism" Opposing the war machine -- Part 3: handling student unrest. "We have no power" What the students wanted -- "Disorderly behavior" Students disrupt the academy -- "Intellectuals falling apart" Divided faculties confront the students -- Part 4: the academic left and right confront the sixties. "The struggle for a democratic university" Radicals challenge the disciplines -- "The field is to some extent ours" Radicals rethink the disciplines -- "Cause for concern" Violations of academic freedom during the late sixties and early seventies -- "Revolt of the rationally committed" Intellectuals and the media construct a scenario of student unrest -- Epilogue: academic reform and political backlash -- Researching the academy in the long sixties: a bibliographic essay