Jennifer Ruth

Broschiertes Buch

The Right to Learn

Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

Herausgeber: Ruth, Jennifer; Schrecker, Ellen; Johnson, Valerie C

Beschreibung

"From leaders on the frontlines of the battle for academic freedom, a first-of-its-kind response to the far right's insidious attacks on the right to learn"--

Autor

Valerie C. Johnson is associate provost of diversity, equity, and inclusion and associate professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of race and class. She is the author of Black Power in the Suburbs: The Myth or Reality of African American Suburban Political Incorporation and the co-editor of Power in the City: Clarence Stone and the Politics of Inequity with Marion Orr. Jennifer Ruth is associate dean in the College of the Arts and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University. She has written about academic freedom and higher education in publications such as the New Republic, Truthout, Academe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and Ms. Her most recent book, cowritten with Michael Bérubé, is It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Ellen Schrecker is well known for her scholarship on McCarthyism and higher education. A retired professor of history at Yeshiva University, her latest book is The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780807045152
• ISBN-10: 0807045152
• Artikelnr.: 68480955