Student Movements for Multiculturalism (Paperback)

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Paperback. Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive understanding of American life must confront the issue of race, sociologist David Yamane explores efforts by students and others to address racism and racial inequality - to challenge the colour line - in higher education. By 1991, nearly half of all colleges and universities in the United States had established a multicultural general education requirement. Yamane examines how such requirements developed at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the late 1980s, when these two schools gained national attention in debates over the curriculum. Based on interviews, primary documents and the existing literature on race and ethnic relations, education, cultural conflict and the sociology of organizations, the book makes a contribution to our understanding of how curricular change occurs and concludes that multiculturalism represents an opening, not a closing, of the American mind. Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive understanding of American life must confront the issue of race, the author explores efforts by students and others to address racism and racial inequality in higher education. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de ref. del artículo 9780801870996

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Acerca del autor: David Yamane is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.