The reorder of things : the university and its pedagogies of minority difference / / Roderick A. Ferguson.

"In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of de...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Difference incorporated
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Physical Description:x, 286 p.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Affirmative Actions of Power
  • 1. The Birth of the Interdisciplines
  • 2. The Proliferation of Minority Difference
  • 3. The Racial Genealogy of Excellence
  • 4. The Reproduction of Things Academic
  • 5. Immigration and the Drama of Affirmation
  • 6. The Golden Era of Instructed Minorities
  • 7. Administering Sexuality, or, The Will to Institutionality
  • Conclusion: An Alternative Currency of Difference
  • Notes
  • Index.