The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

by Roderick A. Ferguson

Book Overview

In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments that reflected their histories and experiences, resulting in the formation of interdisciplinary studies programs that hoped to transform both the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816672792
• ISBN13: 9780816672790
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"