Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

Name: Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
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ISBN: 9780816672790

ISBN-10: 0816672792

ISBN-13: 9780816672790

Edition: 2012

Authors: Roderick A. Ferguson

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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 university and the wider society beyond the campus.InThe Reorder of Things, however, Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines—departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Affirmative Actions of Power



The Birth of the Interdisciplines



The Proliferation of Minority Difference



The Racial Genealogy of Excellence



The Reproduction of Things Academic



Immigration and the Drama of Affirmation



The Golden Era of Instructed Minorities



Administering Sexuality; or, The Will to Institutionality


Conclusion: An Alternative Currency of Difference


Notes


Index