
Student Movements for Multiculturalism
Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education
David Yamane(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 17. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-8018-7099-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 color 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, Student Movements for Multiculturalism makes an important contribution to our understanding of how curricular change occurs and concludes that multiculturalism represents an opening, not a closing, of the American mind.
Reviews / Votes
The book's clarity and succinctness increase its accessibility to both researchers and practitioners... Yamane successfully argues the need for a multicultural curriculum by attempting to bridge the arguments of those for and against such a requirement [and] pushes the reader to not be satisfied with the current marginalization of the multicultural curricular requirement as only one or two courses of a student's general education requirement. -- Elaine W. Kuo Journal of College Student Development This account of recent higher education history is a study in the power of students to affect their education. -- Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti University BusinessMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-7099-6 (9780801870996)
DOI
10.56021/9780801865886
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Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education
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Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education
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Person
David Yamane is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. There Is No Progress Without Struggle: Multiculturalism, Student Movements, and Academic Innovation
Chapter 2. Challenging the curricular Color Line at UW-Madison
Chapter 3. The Long March to American Cultures at UC-Berkeley
Chapter 4. From Process to Product: Substantive Development and Implementation of the Requirements
Chapter 5. Institutionalizing the Challenge: The Future of Curricular Multiculturalism
Conclusion
Appendix A: Methodological Notes
Appendix B: Membership of Committees That Drafter Multicultural General Education Requirements at UW-Madison and UC-Berkeley
Appendix C: Courses Satisfying Ethnic Studies Requirement at UW-Madison in First Year of Implementation
Appendix D: Courses Satisfying American Cultures Requirement at UC-Berkley in First Year of Implementation
Notes
Index
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. There Is No Progress Without Struggle: Multiculturalism, Student Movements, and Academic Innovation
Chapter 2. Challenging the curricular Color Line at UW-Madison
Chapter 3. The Long March to American Cultures at UC-Berkeley
Chapter 4. From Process to Product: Substantive Development and Implementation of the Requirements
Chapter 5. Institutionalizing the Challenge: The Future of Curricular Multiculturalism
Conclusion
Appendix A: Methodological Notes
Appendix B: Membership of Committees That Drafter Multicultural General Education Requirements at UW-Madison and UC-Berkeley
Appendix C: Courses Satisfying Ethnic Studies Requirement at UW-Madison in First Year of Implementation
Appendix D: Courses Satisfying American Cultures Requirement at UC-Berkley in First Year of Implementation
Notes
Index