Full Description
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America's colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental purpose is to engage diverse publics in both reasoned and passionate reflection and soul searching on vital issues that surround campus protest. Thus, the essays in this volume respect the need to consider how to weigh freedom, fairness, safety, and protection inside and outside the walls of ivy. Their authors ponder the big picture of student activism, including:
strategies for student activism
the role of social media and technology
legal questions on campus speech
the dilemmas of political correctness
generational differences among student activists
and various forms of student protest related to race, class, gender, and disabilities.
Both professional and student voices prompt us to better comprehend academic realities with more hope and wisdom. Administrators, faculty, students, and student life personnel in higher education—indeed, all those interested in today's colleges and universities--will want to participate in the timely and productive dialogue within these pages.
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Joseph L. DeVitis and Pietro A. Sasso
Part One: Contexts, Conditions, and Struggles
1. The Promise and Struggles of Campus-Based Student Activism
Cassie L. Barnhardt
2. Communication, Dialogue, and Student Activism
Spoma Jovanovic
3. Social Media: Changing Activism for Better or for Worse
Tess Halpern
4. Social Media and Student Activism: Transformative Moments in Recent History
Angus Johnston
5. Freedom of Speech on the Contemporary Campus: A Bridge over Troubled Waters or a Highway to Hell?
Dennis E. Gregory
6. Debating Equality, Neoliberalism, Normativity, and Campus Rhetoric
Peter Halewood
7. Thinking Beyond Political Correctness
Joshua Axelrod
Part Two: Identity, Political Formation, and Promise
8. The Shift from Internationalism to Identity Politics: From Our Oppressions to My Oppression
Michael Soldatenko and Eric Margolis
9. The Legacy of the Campus Living Wage Movement
Ashton R. Cooper and J. Patrick Biddix
10. Women's Issues and Student Protest
Betsy Eudey
11. Peter Pan Is White Boy Wasted: The Wanderlust of College Men in Protest
Pietro A. Sasso
12. Navigating the Complex Realities of Campus-Based Sexual Violence: Activism and Resistance
Marvette C. Lacy and Terah J. Stewart
13. Black Student Activism: Ongoing Paradoxes and Past Struggles in Higher Education
Victoria K. Malaney Brown
14. Latinx Student Activism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Ebelia Hernández and Roberto Orozco
15. Maintaining Equity: Queer Student Community Improvement: Work, Precarity, and Compensation
Cris Mayo, with Joshua Stuart
16. College Students with Disabilities and Their Activism
J. Mark Pousson and Karen A. Myers
Contributors
