Reorder of Things

The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

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Roderick A. Ferguson: Reorder of Things (2012, University of Minnesota Press, Univ Of Minnesota Press)

280 pages

English language

Published 2012 by University of Minnesota Press, Univ Of Minnesota Press.

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978-0-8166-7278-3
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"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 departments that reflected their histories and experiences, resulting in the formation of interdisciplinary studies programs that hoped to transform both the university and the wider society beyond the campus.In The Reorder of Things, however, Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines--departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer studies--were not simply a challenge to contemporary power as manifest in academia, the state, and global capitalism but were, rather, constitutive of it. Ferguson delineates precisely how minority culture and difference as affirmed by legacies of the student movements were appropriated and institutionalized by established networks of power.Critically examining liberationist …

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Subjects

  • Education, higher, united states
  • Universities and colleges, curricula
  • Universities and colleges, united states
  • Educational change
  • Curriculum change