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We demand : the university and student protests
\"In the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the archaic university. In student-led movements, they fought for the new kinds of public the university needed to serve--women, minorities, immigrants, indigenous people, and more--with a success that had a profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century. Because of their efforts, ethnic studies, women's studies, and American studies were born, and minority communities have become more visible and important to academic debate. Less than fifty years since this pivotal shift in the academy, however, the university is fighting back. In We Demand, Roderick A. Ferguson shows how the university, particularly the public university, is moving away from \"the people\" in all their diversity. As more resources are put toward STEM education, humanities and interdisciplinary programs are being cut and shuttered. This has had a devastating effect on the pursuit of knowledge, and on interdisciplinary programs born from the hard work and effort of an earlier generation. This is not only a reactionary move against the social advances since the '60s and '70s, but part of the larger threat of anti-intellectualism in the United States.\"--Provided by publisher.
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We demand
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In the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led movements, women, minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people demanded that universities adapt to better serve the increasingly heterogeneous public and student bodies. The success of these movements had a profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century: out of these efforts were born ethnic studies, women's studies, and American studies.
In We Demand, Roderick A. Ferguson demonstrates that less than fifty years since this pivotal shift in the academy, the university is moving away from \"the people\" in all their diversity. Today the university is refortifying its commitment to the defense of the status quo off campus and the regulation of students, faculty, and staff on campus. The progressive forms of knowledge that the student-led movements demanded and helped to produce are being attacked on every front. Not only is this a reactionary move against the social advances since the '60s and '70s-it is part of the larger threat of anti-intellectualism in the United States.
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Michael Brown, Ferguson, and the Ghosts of Pruitt-Igoe
The roots of Michael Brown's murder lie partly in the contentious struggles around the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, a struggle that produced the discursive and material conditions whereby black life in the St. Louis suburbs would be degraded and managed by white authorities.
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To Catch a Light-Filled Vision
[...]on Mama’s side of the family, we were brought up on stories of my great-great-grandfather Grandpa Dan, a Muscogee farmer and root worker, who carried a shotgun everywhere he went. [...]of this project, young people from all across the county would be mentored by civil rights veterans who during the working hours were our principals, teachers, librarians, and school secretaries but who after hours taught us to hold and convene organizing meetings and community forums and to conduct door-to-door canvassing on the upcoming school referendum. Conversations in school and at home were often filled with discussions of the ugliness of apartheid, which people encountered through the 1987 film Cry Freedom, starring Denzel Washington as Stephen Biko, and The Oprah Winfrey Show’s episode on the South African writer Mark Mathabane’s biography Kaffir Boy. [...]black folks in the county sat riveted to the television—like the rest of the nation—when Mandela was released from prison in February 1990. [...]the county NAACP arranged a trip so that we could be a part of the fifty thousand people who heard Mandela speak at the Georgia Tech stadium.
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The Distributions of Whiteness
This article argues that the contemporary mode of whiteness acknowledges itself as a historical and social construct but manages to do so without calling for the redistribution of social resources. Hence, as an antiredistributive social formation, we can observe contemporary whiteness as very much in line with its prior—that is, overtly white supremacist—articulation.
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Ode to the Black Bouquinistes
Ferguson employs theories of Gramsci and Bourdieu to situate writer Ta-Nehisi Coates as an organic intellectual and as one who comes from a lineage of black bibliophiles who are seekers. He places Coates and his father Paul as black bibliophiles and collectors who were metaphors for an intellectual effort to hold and understand the complexities that were produced around the meanings of black identity and culture. The two and their network were what he describes as cultural workers who were a web of teachers, archivists, scholars, and activists committed to the intellectual production and political literacy of black people. Ferguson foregrounds that both of the Coates's work constitute epistemological issues at the heart of black studies, reflects the difficult work of interdisciplinarity and remarks more broadly on the hermeneutics used to interpret black radical traditions.
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Multidimensionality: An Interview with Roderick A. Ferguson
Gender, race, sexuality, and class are often separated out as single issues. In his new book, One-Dimensional Queer (2019), Roderick Ferguson critiques this tendency, showing how the struggle for gender and sexual equality, for instance during the Stonewall rebellion, intersects with racial and class struggles. Taking the metaphor from Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, he argues for multidimensionality. Through his career, Ferguson has been a critic of the complications of identity. In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004), he takes to task normative assumptions of sociology, as well as of identity politics, arguing that, \"Instead of identity driving critical interventions, the heterogeneous formations that make up the social drive critical intervention.\" Alongside that work, he has also foregrounded diversity and identity in one of our chief institutions, the university. His influential The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012) critiques the ways that higher education has incorporated difference in largely onedimensional ways.
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