Student Movements for Multiculturalism
Subtitle: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801865886
Subjects: Higher & further education; Multicultural studies; Multicultural Education; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Students & Student Life; Higher; Education / Higher; Discrimination in higher education; Curricula; Discrimination in higher educa; United States; Universities and colleges
First sentence: Over the past two decades, multiculturalism has become an increasingly prominent feature of the social landscape in America, its prominence captured, in part, by the media.
Description: "Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive understanding of American life involves confronting 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. In Student Movements for Multiculturalism, 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."--Jacket.