Cornell '69
liberalism and the crisis of the American university
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Author
Publication
1999 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
89,750 words, Guess
Page Count
359 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL371527M
- ISBN-100801436532
- OCLC Control Number40359269
- OCLC Control Numbercornell69liberal00down
- Library of Congress Control Number98032348
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- Goodreads1196167
- LibraryThing2665920
Classifications
- DDC378.747/71
- LCCLD1370 .D68 1999
Description
In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend - and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism. The weekend's traumatic turn of events is shown by Downs to be a harbinger of the debates raging today over the meaning of the university in American society. He explores the fundamental questions it posed, questions Americans on and off campus are still struggling to answer: What is the relationship between racial justice and intellectual freedom? What are the limits in teaching identity politics? And what is the proper meaning of the university in a democratic polity?
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