The lost promise American universities in the 1960s

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 handmaid...

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Other Authors: Schrecker, Ellen, autor (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press [2021]
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Summary: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 -- Editor
Physical Description:IX, 621 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
ISBN:9780226200859