Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation

by Gary Y. Okihiro

Book Overview

In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power--notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies program; Third World studies was over before it began. Detailing the field's genesis and premature death, Gary Y. Okihiro presents an intellectual history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362317
• ISBN13: 9780822362319
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"