Taking Back the Academy!: History of Activism, History as Activism

by Downs,Jim; Downs,Jim

• ISBN13: 9780415948111
• ISBN10: 0415948118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Taking Back the Academy!is not only an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s, but also an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change. Written against the current political wave that views liberal academics as treasonous and unpatriotic, these authors defend political dissent and powerfully document the importance of activism and public debate on college campuses. From the controversies surrounding the current war to continuing problems of identity politics on campus,Taking Back the Academy!covers a number of issues raging on today's university campuses.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
ERIC FONER
Introduction Bench Talk	1	(10)
JIM DOWNS and JENNIFER MANION
Section I. Student Movements-Beyond the University
1 Teaching Student Activism	11	(14)
EILEEN EAGAN
2 Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debates about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968	25	(10)
VANIA MARKARIAN
3 Between Berlin and Berkeley, Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Student Movements of the 1960's in Transatlantic Perspective	35	(22)
MARTIN KLIMKE
Section II. Students in Unions-Rethinking the University
4 Unionizing for a More Democratic and Responsive University	57	(12)
ANITA SETH
5 What Is a University? Anti-Union Campaigns in Academia	69	(16)
KIMBERLY PHILLIPS-FEIN
6 Where Have All the Politics Gone? A Graduate Student's Reflections	85	(8)
JOHN McMILLIAN
Section III. Historians for Social Justice
7 The Glass Tower: Half Full or Half Empty?	93	(10)
NANCY A. HEWITT
8 Toxic Torts: Historians in the Courtroom	103	(10)
DAVID ROSNER
9 The Most Craven Abdication of Democratic Principles: On the U.S. Attack on Iraq	113
GLENDA GILMORE
Section IV. Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Activism
10 Forging Activist Alliances: Identity, Identification, and Position	125	(20)
DRUCILLA CORNELL and KITTY KRUPAT
11 Calling All Liberals: Connecting Feminist Theory, Activism, and History	145	(16)
JENNIFER MANION
12 Producing for Use and Teaching the Whole Student: Can Pedagogy Be a Form of Activism?	161	(16)
KATHLEEN M. BROWN and TRACEY M. WEIS
13 Teaching Across the Color Line: A Warning About Identity Politics in the Classroom	177	(5)
JIM DOWNS
14 2.5 Cheers for Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy; or, Stay and Fight: To Which Is Added an Account of Radical Scholar-Activists in the Wake of the Iraq War	182	(27)
JESSE LEMISCH
Contributors	209	(6)
Index	215